Mark Poirier
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| Mark Jude Poirier | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Mark Poirier |
| Origin | Tucson, Arizona |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, Short Story Writer, Screenwriter |
Mark Jude Poirier is a contemporary American novelist, short fiction writer, and screenwriter whose work often is set in the Southwestern United States. He grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the fifth child in a family of eleven children.
He wrote the novels Modern Ranch Living and Goats as well as the short story collections Unsung Heroes of American Industry and Naked Pueblo. Recently, he edited the book The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us, including short pieces by George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, A. M. Homes and Nathan Englander. At one time, Poirier was named "the young American writer to watch" by the Times Literary Supplement. He has been the recipient of a Maytag Fellowship and a James Michener Fellowship.
He is currently working as a screenwriter and is the author of Smart People, and a film version of Alice Munro's short story Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. He was awarded a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with Paramount Pictures.
He is a graduate of prestigious programs at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and Stanford University. He taught at Bennington College.
He lives in Weston, Connecticut with his partner, Edward Cahill.[1]
