Lysley A. Tenorio (born
Olongapo City, Philippines
Olongapo, officially the City of Olongapo ( fil, Lungsod ng Olongapo; ilo, Siudad ti Olongapo; xsb, Siyodad nin Olongapo), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. Located in the province of Zambales ...
) is a Filipino-American
short story writer.
Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Born in the Philippines, he lives in San Francisco, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.
He is currently working on a novel.
Awards
* 2000
Wallace Stegner Fellow at
Stanford University
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* 2002 The Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction
* 2006
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...
for "The Brothers"
* 2006
NEA Fellowship
* 2008
Whiting Award
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...
* 2013
Edmund White Award
The Edmund White Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour debut novels by writers within the LGBT community. First presented in 2006, the award was named in honour of American novelist Edmund White.
Winners
* 2 ...
* 2014 ''
The Paris Review'' Writer-In-Residence at The Standard Hotel
"Writer's NYC Retreat"
'' The Wall Street Journal'', November 28, 2013.
* 2015 The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Works
"Help", ''Ploughshares'', Fall 2000
"Felix Starro", ''Zoetrope: All-Story'', Summer 2009"L'Amour, CA", ''The Atlantic'', August 2011
Books
* ''The View from Culion: Stories'', University of Oregon, 1998 (Thesis/Dissertation manuscript)
*'' Monstress'', Ecco, 2012
Anthologies
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References
External links
Author WebsiteProfile at The Whiting Foundation
"Lysley Tenorio", ''KQED''
* "interview with Lysley Tenorio", ''San Francisco Examiner'', July 29, 2009, Alegria Garcia
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American short story writers
American writers of Filipino descent
University of Oregon alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Olongapo
Filipino emigrants to the United States
American LGBT writers
Stegner Fellows