Bruce Maclachlan "Skip" Horack, Jr. (born May 24, 1976) is an American writer.

Life and career

He was raised in Covington, Louisiana where he attended St. Paul's School. Horack holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. from

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. He worked as a lawyer for five years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana before committing fully to writing and teaching. He is a former

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and

Jones Lecturer The Jones Lectureship at Stanford University is a two-year teaching fellowship available to previous Stegner Fellows. The Lectureship is available in fiction and poetry and is intended to provide writers with the time and support needed to complete ...

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, and is currently an associate professor at

. His story collection ''The Southern Cross'', which won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize, was published in 2009 by Mariner Books. The contest was judged by

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, who called the story collection "a knockout winner." Hailed as a "storyteller of uncommon talent", Horack's stories are "artfully evoked and deeply felt" and depict characters that are "vital, funny, and heartbreakingly human". His novel ''The Eden Hunter'' was published in August 2010 by

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and was a ''

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'' Editors' Choice. Reviewer Sven Birkerts noted: "Horack, the author of a well-received story collection, ''The Southern Cross,'' writes luminous, clean prose... He has a poet’s tuned attentiveness, but never uses his sentences to preen." Horack's fiction and nonfiction has also appeared in '' Oxford American'', '' The Southeast Review'', '' New Delta Review'', ''

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'', '' The Southern Review'', ''

StoryQuarterly ''StoryQuarterly'' is an American literary journal based at Rutgers University–Camden in Camden, New Jersey. It was founded in 1975 by Tom Bracken, F.R. Katz, Pamela Painter and Thalia Selz. Works originally published in ''StoryQuarterly'' ha ...

'', '' Epoch'', '' Narrative Magazine'', and elsewhere. His novel ''The Other Joseph'' was published by Ecco Press in March 2015.

References

External links

Official website

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