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Iowa Short Fiction Award
The Iowa Short Fiction Award is an annual award given for a first collection of short fiction. It has been described as "a respected prize" by the ''Chicago Tribune'', and ''The New York Times'' considered it "among the most prestigious literary prizes America offers." The award was founded by the University of Iowa Press in 1969, and has been continuously presented to a writer of short stories each year since. In 1988, a companion award called the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, named for the original director of the University of Iowa Press, was instituted. Both the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the John Simmons Short Fiction Award are juried through the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and winning books are published by the University of Iowa Press. Select stories from winning entries are included in ''The Iowa Award: The Best Stories from Twenty Years'' and ''The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991-2000'', with selections by American author Frank Conroy. Winners of the Iowa Short Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Cady
Jack Cady (March 20, 1932 – January 14, 2004) was an American author, born in Kentucky. He is known mostly as an award winning writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. Cady was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but served in the U.S. Coast Guard in Maine. He later had several jobs, including truck driver, auctioneer, landscaper and finally university instructor. He first taught creative writing at the University of Washington from 1968 until 1973, and he then had a number of brief teaching stints at colleges in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Alaska from 1973 to 1978. During 1985 he began teaching writing at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and he retired from that job in 1998. Cady married fellow writer Carol Orlock in 1977, and they remained married until his death. Cady's collected literary papers were donated to the Mortvedt Library at Pacific Lutheran University d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra (born 1984) is an American fiction writer. Marra has won numerous awards for his short stories, as well as his first novel, ''A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,'' which was a The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' best seller. Personal life Marra was born in Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., attended high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and has lived in Eastern Europe, though he now resides in Oakland, California. Education Marra attended the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland before attending the University of Southern California where he earned with bachelor's degree in creative writing. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Iowa Writer's Workshop. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a Stegner Fellowship, Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he also taught as the Jones Lectureship, Jones Lecturer in Fiction. Marra has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Pritchett
Michael Pritchett is an American author best known for his novel ''The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis''. Pritchett teaches at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and holds a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. He won a Dana Award in 2000. His fiction has been anthologized in well-known journals, including ''Passages North'', ''Natural Bridge'' and ''New Letters ''New Letters'', the name it has been published under since 1970, is one of the oldest literary magazines in the United States and continues to publish award-winning poems and fiction. The magazine is based in Kansas City, Missouri. History and ...''. Published works * References Ron Charles, Washington Posreview11/4/07. 21st-century American novelists American male novelists Living people University of Missouri alumni 21st-century American male writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-novelist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enid Shomer
Enid Shomer is an American poet and fiction writer. She is the author of five poetry collections, two short story collections and a novel. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Paris Review, The New Criterion, Parnassus, Kenyon Review, Tikkun,'' and in anthologies including ''The Best American Poetry.'' Her stories have appeared in ''The New Yorker, New Stories from the South, the Year's Best, Modern Maturity, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah,'' and ''Virginia Quarterly Review.'' Her stories, poems, and essays have been included in more than fifty anthologies and textbooks, including ''Poetry: A HarperCollins Pocket Anthology''. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in ''The New Times Book Review, The Women's Review of Books,'' and elsewhere. Two of her books, ''Stars at Noon'' and ''Imaginary Men,'' were the subjects of feature interviews on NPR's ''Morning Edition'' and ''All Things Considered.'' Her writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Harleman
Ann Harleman (born October 28, 1945, in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American novelist, scholar, and professor. Life and career Harleman was born in Ohio. When she was four years old, her family moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where her father worked for Bethlehem Steel. As a child, she wrote mystery stories in the style of the ''Nancy Drew'' novels. Aiming for a career in academia, she earned the B.A. degree at Rutgers University. In 1972, she became the first woman to earn the doctorate in linguistics at Princeton, and taught linguistics at the University of Washington. In 1976, she took part in a six-month exchange program in Russia. After she moved to Rhode Island in 1983, she became a visiting scholar at Brown's American Civilization department and later a lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1988 she earned the M.F.A. in creative writing at Brown University and began to write short stories, submitting some annually for the Iowa Short Fiction contest. In 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wyatt (writer)
Charles Wyatt is an American musician and writer. Personal life Charles Wyatt graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. After performing as a flutist for several years, he went back to school to receive an MFA from Warren Wilson College. He currently lives in Nashville with his wife, standard poodle Lucy, and coon cat Sylvester. Professional life Before receiving his MFA, Wyatt worked successfully as a flutist. He played with various orchestras, including the US Marine Band and held the position of principal flutist with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra for twenty-five years. Since receiving his MFA, he has left the orchestra to teach writing at, among others, Oberlin College, Purdue University, and Denison University. His book ''Listening to Mozart'' received the John Simmons Short Fiction Award John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thisbe Nissen
Thisbe Nissen is an American author. Originally from New York City, she lived in Iowa for eleven years. Among her works are ''Osprey Island'', ''The Good People of New York'', and ''Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night''. She has taught a fiction course at least once a year since the inception of the Iowa Young Writers' Workshop, a two-week intensive creative writing workshop "camp" for talented high school students, except in 2006. She has also taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Iowa Elderhostel. Early life and education Nissen is a graduate of Hunter College High School on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She attended Oberlin College, and received her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she was a James Michener Fellow. Career In 2007, she taught at the 3rd Annual Writers in Paradise at Eckerd College. In the spring of 2007, was back in New York to teach at Columbia. After finishing a story collection called ''How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Varallo
Anthony Varallo (born June 12, 1970) is an author and professor of English] at the College of Charleston. Biography Anthony Varallo was born and raised in Yorklyn, Delaware. He attended the University of Delaware where he received a bachelor's degree in both English and History in 1992. In 1997 he graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA. He met his wife, writer Malinda McCollum, in the program. He later went on to pursue his PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri in 2005. He serves as the fiction editor of ''Crazyhorse'' at the College of Charleston. He now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with his wife and two children. Books * ''Everyone Was There'' (stories), Elixir Press, 2017 * ''Think of Me and I’ll Know'' (stories), TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2013 * ''Out Loud'' (stories), University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008 * ''This Day in History'' (stories), University of Iowa Press, 2005 Fellowships * Emerging Writer Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennine Capó Crucet
Jennine Capó Crucet is a Cuban-American novelist, and short story writer. Life Capó Crucet attended Cornell University where she received a B.A. in English and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She also graduated from the University of Minnesota with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska. Her work has appeared in ''The New York Times''. Capó Crucet is best known for her short story collection ''How to Leave Hialeah'' which focuses on her experiences as a Cuban-American woman growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Miami. For this collection she won the John Gardner Book Award. Her second book, ''Make Your Home Among Strangers'', was released in 2015. This book became the subject of controversy when students at Georgia Southern University burned a copy on a grill after a question and answer session by Crucet. The book burned at Georgia Southern University was ''My Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hamby
Barbara Hamby (born 1952) is an American poet, fiction writer, editor, and critic. Life She was born in New Orleans and raised in Hawaii. Her poems have been printed in numerous publications and her first book of poetry, ''Delirium'' (1995), received literary recognition. She lives with her husband and fellow poet David Kirby in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a writer-in-residence in the Creative Writing Program, and he a professor, both with the English Department at Florida State University. Awards and honors * 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship * 2010 Iowa Short Fiction Award * Donald Hall Prize in Poetry (Association of Writers and Writing Programs, 2003) for ''Babel'' *New York University Poetry Prize (1998) for ''The Alphabet of Desire'' *Kate Tufts Discovery Award (1996) for ''Delirium'' *Norma Farber First Book Award (Poetry Society of America The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Simpson (author)
Chad Simpson is a short and flash fiction author from Monmouth, Illinois. He is the winner of the 2012 John Simmons Short Fiction Award, juried by Jim Shepard. His short story collection, "Tell Everyone I Said Hi," was published by the University of Iowa Press in fall 2012. He has written numerous stories that have appeared in multiple literary magazines. His flash story " Let x" won the second annual Micro Award in 2009. " Let x" originally appeared in Esquire.com. Simpson earned a B.A. from Monmouth College in 1998 and a M.F.A. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2005. He also is the author of a chapbook, "Phantoms," published in April 2010 by Origami Zoo Press. He is currently an associate professor of English at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States. The city is northwest of Peoria. At the 2010 census, its population was 32,195. It is the county seat of Knox County and the principal city of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
