Bret Lott (born October 8, 1958) is the New York Times author and professor of English at the College of Charleston.
[1][2][3] He is Crazyhorse magazine's nonfiction editor[4] and leads a study abroad program every summer to Spoleto, Italy.
Lott was appointed to the National Council of the Arts[5] by President George W. Bush and served a six-year term.
He met and married his wife of 40 years, Melanie Swank Lott, at First Baptist Church of Huntington Beach/Fountain Valley.
In 1986, Lott joined the English Department at the College of Charleston, where he is now a tenured professor and director of the new MFA program.