About John Temple

TEMPLE, JOHN is an assistant professor and interim associate dean of the P.I. Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University. He is a former staff writer for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Greensboro News & Record and the Tampa Tribune. In 2002, he earned a master’s in fine arts degree in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Temple also is the author of two narrative journalism books: “Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office” (2005, University Press of Mississippi) and the forthcoming “The Last Lawyer: A Death Row Attorney’s Toughest Case.” He has co-directed several j-school projects and is in the planning stages of a project in which journalism students will produce multimedia packages and do multimedia training for rural weekly newspapers in West Virginia. He enjoys carpentry, coaching baseball and spending time with his wife and two young sons.