Debra Spark

Debra Spark (1962-) is an American short story writer, essayist, and editor. She teaches at Colby College^[1] and at Warren Wilson College.^[2]

Biography

Debra Spark was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1962. She graduated from Yale University. Her work has appeared in AGNI,^[3] Esquire, Narrative,^[4] Ploughshares,^[5] The New York Times, Food and Wine, Yankee, Down East, The Washington Post, Maine Home + Design and The San Francisco Chronicle.

She lives with her husband and son in North Yarmouth, Maine.

Awards

• 1995 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• Bunting Institute fellowship from Radcliffe College

Works

• The Pretty Girl. Four Way Books. 2012. ISBN 9781935536185. 
• Coconuts for the Saint. HarperCollins Publishers. 1996. ISBN 978-0-380-72630-1. 
• "The Revived Art of the Toy Theatre", AGNI 58

• Good for the Jews. University of Michigan Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-472-11711-6. 
• Curious attractions: essays on writing. University of Michigan Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-472-06897-5. 
• The ghost of Bridgetown. Graywolf Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-55597-352-0. 
• On the tail of the dog star and other stories. University of Iowa. 1986. 

Anthologies

• Julie Checkoway, ed. (2001). "The Trigger: What Gives Rise to a Story?". Creating fiction: instruction and insights from teachers of the Associated Writing Programs. Writer's Digest Books. ISBN 978-1-884910-51-7. 
• Alan Kaufman, ed. (1987). The New generation: fiction for our time from America's writing programs. Anchor Press/Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-23952-3. 
• Wesley McNair, ed. (2005). "A Short Wedding Story". Contemporary Maine fiction: an anthology of short stories. Down East Enterprise Inc. ISBN 978-0-89272-693-6. 
• DeWitt Henry, ed. (2002). "Last Things". Sorrow's Company: Great Writers on Loss and Grief. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-6237-1. 

Editor

• Debra Spark, ed. (1986). 20 under 30: best stories by America's new young writers. Scribner's. ISBN 978-0-684-18640-5. 

References

External links

• "Author's website"
• Bret Lott (2005). Before we get started: a practical memoir of the writer's life. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-345-47817-7.