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, Massachusets 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 currently 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

• Coconuts for the Saint. HarperCollins Publishers. 1996. ISBN 9780380726301. 
• "The Revived Art of the Toy Theatre", AGNI 58

• Good for the Jews. University of Michigan Press. 2009. ISBN 9780472117116. 
• Curious attractions: essays on writing. University of Michigan Press. 2005. ISBN 9780472068975. http://books.google.com/books?id=Hk9v4SMTckYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Debra+Spark&lr=&ei=5sX1SsiiHYfcM_udzJkF#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• The ghost of Bridgetown. Graywolf Press. 2001. ISBN 9781555973520. 
• 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 9781884910517. http://books.google.com/books?id=oTkePfrUnOcC&pg=PA13&dq=Debra+Spark&lr=&ei=5sX1SsiiHYfcM_udzJkF#v=onepage&q=Debra%20Spark&f=false. 
• Alan Kaufman, ed (1987). The New generation: fiction for our time from America's writing programs. Anchor Press/Doubleday. ISBN 9780385239523. 
• Wesley McNair, ed (2005). "A Short Wedding Story". Contemporary Maine fiction: an anthology of short stories. Down East Enterprise Inc. ISBN 9780892726936. http://books.google.com/books?id=9rB6TrFOmtoC&pg=PA221&dq=Debra+Spark&lr=&ei=iMv1StzRL4aWNdqjua8F#v=onepage&q=Debra%20Spark&f=false. 
• DeWitt Henry, ed (2002). "Last Things". Sorrow's Company: Great Writers on Loss and Grief. Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807062371. http://books.google.com/books?id=9BSblmmqVyIC&pg=PA2&dq=Debra+Spark&lr=&ei=iMv1StzRL4aWNdqjua8F#v=onepage&q=Debra%20Spark&f=false. 

Editor

• Debra Spark, ed (1986). 20 under 30: best stories by America's new young writers. Scribner's. ISBN 9780684186405. 

References

1. ^ http://www.colby.edu/profile/daspark/ENGL
2. ^ http://www.warren-wilson.edu/academics/catalog/catalog2.php?name=staff_faculty&id=MFA
3. ^ http://web.bu.edu/agni/authors/D/Debra-Spark.html
4. ^ http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/debra-spark
5. ^ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1451

External links

• "Author's website"
• Bret Lott (2005). Before we get started: a practical memoir of the writer's life. Random House, Inc.. ISBN 9780345478177. http://books.google.com/books?id=De5YShoP79YC&pg=PA144&dq=Debra+Spark&lr=&ei=5sX1SsiiHYfcM_udzJkF#v=onepage&q=Debra%20Spark&f=false. 

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