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American Short Fiction
''American Short Fiction'' is a nationally circulated literary magazine founded in 1991 and based in Austin, Texas. Issued triannually, ''American Short Fiction'' publishes short fiction, novel excerpts, an occasional novella, and strives to publish work by both established and emerging contemporary authors. The magazine seeks out stories "that dive into the wreck, that stretch the reader between recognition and surprise, that conjure a particular world with delicate expertise—stories that take a different way home." ''American Short Fiction'' sponsors two annual short fiction contests, the Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize judged in 2018 by ZZ Packer, and the American Fiction Prize. The magazine also sponsors a reading series in Austin as well as online workshops for fiction writers. History and publication Founded in 1991 by editor Laura Furman, ''American Short Fiction'' was published until 1998 by the University of Texas Press in cooperation with the Texas Center for Writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Van Den Berg
Laura van den Berg (born May 31, 1983) is an American fiction writer. She is the author of five works of fiction. Her first two collections of short stories were each shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, in 2010 and 2014. In 2021, she was awarded the Strauss Livings Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Biography Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She has a BA from Rollins College (2005) and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. Her stories have been published in ''The Paris Review, McSweeney's, BOMB, Virginia Quarterly Review, Conjunctions'', ''American Short Fiction'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Glimmer Train'' and ''One Story''. Her first collection of short stories, ''What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us,'' was published in 2009, and her second collection, '' The Isle of Youth'', was published in 2013. A third short story collection, ''I Hold a Wolf by the Ears,'' was published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Hogan
Desmond Hogan (born 10 December 1950) is an Irish writer. Awarded the 1977 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and 1980 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, his oeuvre comprises novels, plays, short stories and travel writing. The ''Cork Examiner'' said: "Like no other Irish writer just now, Hogan sets down what it's like to be a disturbed child of what seems a Godforsaken country in these troubled times." The ''Irish Independent'' said he is "to be commended for the fidelity and affection he shows to the lonely and the downtrodden." ''The Boston Globe'' said there "is something mannered in Hogan's prose, which is festooned with exotic imagery and scattered in sentence fragments." A contemporary of Bruce Chatwin, Ian McEwan, Peter Carey, Salman Rushdie and a close friend of Kazuo Ishiguro, he has since vanished off the literary scene. In October 2009, he was placed on the sexual offenders list. Biography Hogan was born in Ballinasloe in east County Galway. His father was a draper. Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida (born September 6, 1971) is an American novelist, journalist, editor, screenplay writer, and educator. She is the author of multiple books, has worked as a writing teacher, and is a founder and editor of '' The Believer'' magazine. Early life Vida was born on September 6, 1971, in San Francisco, California. Both of her parents were European immigrants, her mother was from Sweden and her father is Hungarian. She inherited the name Vendela from her maternal grandmother. She left California to attend Middlebury College in Vermont where she received her bachelor's degree in English in 1993. It was at Middlebury where a mutual friend introduced her to her future spouse, Dave Eggers. She later continued her studies and received a Master of Fine Arts degree at Columbia University. After graduating, she interned at the '' Paris Review'', and she adapted her master's degree thesis into her first book, ''Girls on the Verge''. Career In 2003, Vida co-founded ''The Believer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Percy
Benjamin Percy is an American author of novels and short stories, essayist, comic book writer, and screenwriter. Career Benjamin Percy has published four novels, ''The Dark Net'', ''The Dead Lands'', ''Red Moon'', and ''The Wilding'', as well as two books of short fiction: ''Refresh, Refresh'' and ''The Language of Elk''. In 2016, he published his first book of non-fiction, a collection of essays on writing and genre fiction: ''Thrill Me''. Percy's first work for DC Comics was writing ''Detective Comics'' #35 – 36 in 2014, which was part of the company's New 52 branding. He eventually took over as writer on the company's ''Green Arrow'' series, beginning with issue 41, and continuing until issue 52, when that series was cancelled in preparation for DC's 2016 DC Rebirth initiative, which involved restarting its monthly titles with new #1 issues. Percy would continue as writer on ''Green Arrow'' with its new series in 2016, beginning with the one-shot '' Green Arrow: Rebirth'', w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander (born 1970) is an American short story writer and novelist. His debut short story collection, '' For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,'' was published by Alfred A. Knopf, in 1999. His second collection, '' What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank'', won the 2012 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Biography Nathan Englander was born in West Hempstead on Long Island, New York, and grew up there as part of the Orthodox Jewish community. He attended the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County for high school and graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. In the mid-1990s, he moved to Israel, where he lived for five years. Englander lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife Rachel, and children Olivia and Sammy. He formerly lived in Brooklyn, New York, and Madison, Wisconsin. He taught fiction as a part of CUNY Hunter College's Master ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonya Nelson
Antonya Nelson (born January 6, 1961) is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories. Life and education Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961, in Wichita, Kansas. She received a BA degree from the University of Kansas in 1983 and an MFA degree from the University of Arizona in 1986. She lives in Telluride, Colorado; Las Cruces, New Mexico; and Houston, Texas. Career Nelson's short stories have appeared in ''Esquire'', ''The New Yorker'', '' Quarterly West'', ''Redbook'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Harper's'', and other magazines. They have been anthologized in '' Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards'' and '' Best American Short Stories''. Several of her books have been ''New York Times Book Review'' Notable Books: ''In the Land of Men'' (1992), ''Talking in Bed'' (1996), ''Nobody's Girl: A Novel'' (1998), ''Living to Tell: A Novel'' (2000), and ''Female Trouble'' (2002). For a 1999 issue on The Future of American Fiction, ''The New Yorker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caitlin Horrocks
Caitlin () is a feminine given name of Irish origin. Historically, the Irish name Caitlín was anglicized as Cathleen or Kathleen. In the 1970s, however, non-Irish speakers began pronouncing the name according to English spelling rules as , which led to many variations in spelling such as Caitlin, Ceitlin, Catelynn, Caitlyn, Katlyn, Kaitlin, Kaitlyn, Kaitlyne, Katelyn and Katelynn. It is the Irish version of the Old French name ''Cateline'' , which comes from Catherine">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... name ''Cateline'' , which comes from Catherine, which in turn comes from the Ancient Greek Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterine). Catherine is attributed to St. Catherine of Alexandria. Along with the many other variants of Catherine, it is generally believed to mean "pure" because of its long association with the Greek adjective καθαρός ''katharos'' (pure), though the name did n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula K
Ursula commonly refers to: * Ursula (name), feminine name (and a list of people and fictional characters with the name) * Ursula (''The Little Mermaid''), a fictional character who appears in ''The Little Mermaid'' (1989) * Saint Ursula, a legendary Christian saint Ursula may also refer to: * ''Ursula'' (album), an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * Ursula (crater), a crater on Titania, a moon of Uranus *Ursula (detention center) Ursula is the colloquial name for the Central Processing Center, the largest U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention center for undocumented immigrants. The facility is a retrofitted warehouse that can hold more than 1,000 people. It was ope ..., processing facility for unaccompanied minors in McAllen, Texas * Ursula Channel, body of water in British Columbia, Canada * 375 Ursula, a large main-belt asteroid * HMS ''Ursula'', a destroyer and two submarines that served with the Royal Navy * Tropical Storm Ursula (other), a typhoon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Baxter (author)
Charles Morley Baxter (born May 13, 1947) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Biography Baxter was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to John and Mary Barber (Eaton) Baxter. He graduated from Macalester College in Saint Paul in 1969. In 1974 he received his PhD in English from the University at Buffalo with a thesis on Djuna Barnes, Malcolm Lowry, and Nathanael West. Baxter taught high school in Pinconning, Michigan for a year before beginning his university teaching career at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He then moved to the University of Michigan, where for many years he directed the Creative Writing MFA program. He was a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Iowa and at Stanford. He taught at the University of Minnesota and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. He retired in 2020. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. He received the PEN/Malamud Award in 2021 for Excellence in the Short Story. He marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Career Born in Washington, D.C., Beattie grew up in Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C., and attended Woodrow Wilson High School. She holds an undergraduate degree from American University and a master's degree from the University of Connecticut. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories published in ''The Western Humanities Review'', '' Ninth Letter'', the '' Atlantic Monthly'', and ''The New Yorker''. In 1976, she published her first book of short stories, ''Distortions'', and her first novel, ''Chilly Scenes of Winter'', which was later made into a film. Beattie's style has evolved over the years. In 1998, she published ''Park City'', a collection of old and new short stories, about which Christopher Lehman-Haup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Erdrich
Karen Louise Erdrich ( ; born June 7, 1954) is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, a federally recognized Ojibwe people. Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance. She has written 28 books in all, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and children's books. In 2009, her novel '' The Plague of Doves'' was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. In November 2012, she received the National Book Award for Fiction for her novel '' The Round House''. She is a 2013 recipient of the Alex Awards. She was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the National Book Festival in September 2015. In 2021, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel '' The Night Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |