Paul Lisicky

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

Biography

Lisicky grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[1] He earned both Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in English from Rutgers University, then received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. While a student at Iowa, he won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He also received awards from the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Henfield Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a winter Fellow. He is the author of the novel Lawnboy, the memoir Famous Builder and two forthcoming books: The Burning House (a novel, 2011) and Unbuilt Projects (short prose pieces, 2012).

He has taught creative writing at Cornell University, The University of Houston, Antioch University, Sarah Lawrence College, Rutgers–Newark and New York University, in addition to summer writing programs including the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Indiana Summer Writers Conference.

He currently lives in New York City. [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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