Mark Richard

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Mark Richard

Born	Lake Charles, Louisiana
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Genres	poetry, short stories

Mark Richard is an American Short story writer and poet. His first book, The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories (a collection of short stories), won the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award. He published the books Fishboy: A Ghost's Story in 1993 (ISBN 0-385-42568-6) and Charity (ISBN 0-385-42570-8) in 1997.

Mark Richard was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, grew up in Texas and Virginia, and attended college at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of two award-winning short story collections The Ice at the Bottom of the World, and Charity; and a bestselling novel, Fishboy. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Esquire, GQ, The Paris Review, The Oxford American, Grand Street, Shenandoah, The Quarterly, Equator, and Antaeus. He is the recipient of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Foundation Writer’s Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, the Mary Francis Hobson Medal for Arts and Letters, and a National Magazine Award for Fiction. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of California Irvine, University of Mississippi, Arizona State University, the University of the South, Sewanee, and The Writer’s Voice in New York. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, Spin, Esquire, George, Detour, Vogue, and The Oxford American, and he has been a correspondent for the BBC, He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jennifer Allen and their three sons.