EDUCATION
B.A. English, University of California at Berkeley, l979. Phi Beta Kappa.
M.F.A. in Fiction, Columbia University, School of the Arts, l983.
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of English, Middlebury College 1997 - present
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction, English Dept., Harvard University l993 - 1997
Fiction Faculty, Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers 1996 - present
Visiting Professor in Creative Writing, Iowa Writers Workshop,
University of Iowa, fall 1991
Visiting Assistant Professor in English, University of Houston 1989-91
Visiting Assistant Professor in English, Rice University 1989
Adjunct Professor in English, State University of New York at Stony Brook 1985-88
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Whiting Writers' Award, 2000
Ribalow Prize, Best Jewish Novel of 1997 (The Here and Now)
YMCA Writers Voice Fellowship, 1998
Finalist, Prix de Rome, American Academy of Arts and Letters, l995
Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers'Award, 1991-94
Pushcart Prize 1988
Jerusalem Foundation Fellowship 1988
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Varieties of Romantic Experience: Stories, Scribner, 2002 (Vintage Paperback '03)
Inspired Sleep, Scribner, Jan. 2001 (Vintage Paperback '02)
The Here and Now, Scribner, Feb. l996 (Scribner Paperback '97, Brazilian edition '02)
The Organ Builder, Harper & Row, July 1988. (Perennial Library Paperback '89)
Stories
"Points of Interest" The Atlantic Monthly (Unbound), March 2001
"The Fickle Gods" New England Review, fall 2000
"The Next Big Thing" New England Review, summer 1998
"Pinch Hitter" Tikkun, March 1997
"The Slumber Artist" Jewish Quarterly (UK), summer 1997
"The Old Mistakes" Ploughshares, winter 1996
"The Boys at Night" Glimmer Train, spring 1996
"Adult Education" Antaeus, spring 1993
"The Here and Now" GQ, summer 1992
"Between Hammers" Story, winter 1991
"The Varieties of Romantic Experience" Harper's, Feb. 1990
"Oscillations" Pequod, fall 1990
"A Kind of Thunder" Michigan Quarterly Review, winter 1990
"The Confession" Tikkun, Feb. 1989
"A Flight of Sparks" Paris Review, fall 1988
"The Scientific Method" Ploughshares, summer 1986
"Shamsky and Other Casualties" Iowa Review, fall 1985
"Dostoevsky's Whore" Massachusetts Review, winter 1985
"Pastimes" Ascent, fall 1984
Anthologies
The Story Behind the Story, W.W. Norton (forthcoming, 2003), "Varieties"
Pushcart Prize XII (lead story), "Shamsky and Other Casualties"
Editors Choice IV, "The Scientific Method"
Essays
"Lost and Found" Tin House, spring 2001
"Diary from Provence" Slate, July 17-21, 2000
"The Uncertainty Principle" Boulevard, fall 1997
"Waiting" New York Times Magazine, January 1994
"Notes from Underground" Tikkun, March 1990
"The Stiffs That Dreams Are Made Of" Village Voice, July 1989
Reviews
New York Times Book Review, Boston Globe, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Review of Books, The New Leader.
CONFERENCE FACULTY
Bread Loaf Writers Conference, 2002, 2000, 1998
Prague Summer Writers Conference, 1996
Writers Voice Regional Residency, Silver Bay NY 1998
Bergeron Writers Residency, American School of London, 1998
New England Young Writers Conference, 1998-99
Columbia/Teachers College Writing Conference 1984-87
REFERENCES
Ted Solotaroff, c/o Scribner Publishing, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, NY
Frank Conroy, Iowa Writers Workshop, University of Iowa
Rosellen Brown, MFA Program, Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hirsch, English Dept., University of Houston
Helen Vendler, English Dept., Harvard University
Mona Simpson, English Dept., Bard College
Jay Parini, English Dept., Middlebury College
Peter Turchi, Director, Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers
LITERARY AGENT
Denise Shannon, International Creative Mgmt.