Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky (born July 9, 1959) is an American novelist and memoirist.

Biography

Paul Lisicky author of "The Narrow Door." Photo by Star Black.

Paul Lisicky grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[1] He is the author of five books: Lawnboy, Famous Builder, The Burning House, Unbuilt Projects, and The Narrow Door, published by Graywolf Press in January 2016. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Ecotone, Fence, The Offing, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Rumpus, Unstuck, and in many other magazines and anthologies. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a Fellow. He has taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Rutgers-Newark, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and elsewhere.

He currently lives in Philadelphia, PA and teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, the low residency program at Sierra Nevada College, and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. He is the editor of StoryQuarterly and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

From 1995 until 2011, his partner was the writer Mark Doty. They were married in 2008 and divorced in 2013.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ Korman, Nina. "Lawnboy's Own Story: The Miami Book Fair International", Miami New Times, November 11, 1999. Accessed November 29, 2008. "Lisicky's book, a six-year project, is an evocative, sensitively rendered portrait of a young gay man coming of age in our parts. The author grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, lives most of the year in Houston, Texas, where he teaches, and spends the summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts."
  2. ↑ Guthmann, Edward. "Memories Of a Lost Childhood", San Francisco Chronicle, November 3, 1999. Accessed October 16, 2007. "His partner of four years, novelist Paul Lisicky (Lawnboy), travels with him and provided a valuable sounding board during the writing of Firebird."
  3. ↑ http://paullisicky.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/new-life.html

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