With degrees in Education and History, Duane L Herrmann has taught at all levels from Kindergarten to College. He is an award winning, internationally published historian, poet, and author, with work published in print and online, in sixty-plus anthologies, over one hundred other publications, plus a sci fi novel, nine collections of poetry, two collections of short stories, a Bahá’í local history, stories for children, and a book on the Bahá’í fast. He has pioneered the discovery and exploration of early Bahá’í history in Kansas, the second Bahá’í community west of Egypt. He has articles of Bahá’í history published in India, Australia, Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland and the US, as well as chapters in several books and others on other topics in additional countries in several languages. All this despite an abusive childhood embellished with dyslexia, ADHD; now compounded by cyclothymia, an anxiety disorder, and PTSD. He is the father of four children, seven grand children and one great grand.
2026 Courses
Writing Biographies and Histories, Oct. 5-Dec. 7 with Janet Rose, Caroline Browning Hess, Mike McMullen, and Richard Hollinger
2025 Courses