Doug Dorst is an American novelist, short story writer, and creative writing instructor. Dorst is a graduate of the

Iowa Writers' Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative ...

and the

Stegner Fellowship The Stegner Fellowship program is a two-year creative writing fellowship at Stanford University. The award is named after American Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), a historian, novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and Stanford faculty mem ...

at Stanford University. He is the current director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University in San Marcos. Dorst is the author of the novel ''Alive in Necropolis'', a runner-up for the 2008

Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award The PEN/Hemingway Award is awarded annually to a full-length novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a full-length book of fiction. The award is named after Ernest Hemingway and funded by the Hemingw ...

, winner of the Emperor Norton Award, and San Francisco's 2009 One City One Book selection. His collection ''The Surf Guru'' (also on

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) was well-received and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award. October 2013 saw the release of ''S.'', a novel Dorst wrote in collaboration with ''

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'' co-creator J. J. Abrams. Dorst was a three-time ''

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'' winner and competed in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.

Bibliography

* ''Alive in Necropolis'' * ''The Surf Guru'' * '' S.'' (with J. J. Abrams)

References

External links

Doug Dorst homepage

Doug Dorst reads at the Katherine Anne Porter House
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