Born in Los Angeles, California in 1958, Lott grew up in Buena Park, California and Phoenix, Arizona, before returning to California to live in Huntington Beach. He met and married his wife of 40 years, Melanie Swank Lott, at First Baptist Church of Huntington Beach/Fountain Valley. A graduate of Cal State Long Beach (1981), Lott headed to Massachusetts for graduate school at UMass Amherst. He received his MFA in 1984 and landed his first teaching position at Ohio State University. 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.[6]
Awards and distinctions
Recipient of the Ohio Arts Council[7] Aid to Artists Fellowship in Literature for 1986–1987
Recipient of the South Carolina Arts Commission[8] Fellowship in Literature for 1987–1988
^Clifford, Thompson, ed. (1999). World Authors 1990–1995. New York and Boston: H. W. Wilson. p. 469. ISBN0-8242-0899-4. (Title link goes to Google Books snippet view only.)