Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

female, 46 years old
memoirist, Tennessee writer, Sarah Lawrence College alumni, University of Iowa alumni, Nashville Banner, Guggenheim Fellowship…BestAmericanShortStories, American
Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her...
Junot Díaz

Junot Díaz

male
African Voices, The Paris Review, story, BestAmericanShortStories, Dominican-American, writer…short stories, Latin American
Junot Díaz is a contemporary Dominican-American writer whose collection of short stories featured in the book "Drown" became an overnight literary s...
Richard Bausch

Richard Bausch

male
novelist, BestAmericanShortStories, Ploughshares, Harper's Magazine, atlantic, English…American, O'Henry Prize Stories
Richard Bausch (1945) is an American novelist, and professor of English at the University of Memphis. His novels usually focus on American family...
Tim Pratt

Tim Pratt

male
polyphony, English studies, Best American Short Stories 2005, Nebula Award, Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarion Workshop…BestAmericanShortStories, Nebula Award for Best Short Story, American, Best Short Story
Tim Pratt (December 12, 1976) is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He grew up in the vicinity of Dudley, North Carolina, and attended...
Andre Dubus III

Andre Dubus III

male, 50 years old
University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Texas, mental health counselor, bartender, pushcart prize, counselor…American Academy of Arts and Letters, BestAmericanShortStories, American, Short story writer, The Cage Keeper and Other Stories
Andre Dubus III (b. 1959 in Oceanside, California) is an American writer best known as the author of the novel "House of Sand and Fog", which was a...
Dan Chaon

Dan Chaon

male, 45 years old (Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
BestAmericanShortStories, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Library Association, O. Henry Award, National Book Award, Among the Missing…American, Short story writer
Dan Chaon (born 1964) is an American author. His best-selling first novel was "You Remind Me of Me" (2004). His short-story collections "Fitting...
Antonya Nelson

Antonya Nelson

female, 48 years old
University of Houston, Talking in Bed, Living to Tell, Nobody’s Girl, Rea Award for the Short Story, Prize Stories The O. Henry Awards…BestAmericanShortStories, short stories, American
Antonya Nelson is an American author from Wichita, Kansas. She received an MFA from the University of Arizona and has published four collections of...
Nicole Krauss

Nicole Krauss

female, 35 years old
esquire magazine, novelist, Man Walks Into a Room, BestAmericanShortStories, Orange Prize for Fiction, park slope…American, Short story writer
Nicole Krauss (born 1974) is an American writer who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, novelist Jonathan...
Peter Ho Davies

Peter Ho Davies

male, 43 years old
University of Michigan, The Welsh Girl, The Ugliest House in the World, Prize Stories The O. Henry Awards, BestAmericanShortStories, University of Michigan faculty
Peter Ho Davies (born August 30, 1966) is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.
Tony Earley

Tony Earley

male, 48 years old
From San Antonio, Texas, University of Alabama, Tennessee writer, Warren Wilson College, English, The Daily Courier…BestAmericanShortStories, American, Short story writer
Tony Earley (b. 1961) is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, but grew up in North Carolina. His stories...