- Gerald Shapiro
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Gerald Shapiro is an American writer who has published three prize-winning books. He is also a reader for "Prairie Schooner". He lives in
Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, the writerJudith Slater .Education
B.A. and M.A. from the
University of Kansas ; M.F.A. from theMFA Program for Poets & Writers at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst .Academic Positions
*
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
*Harris Center for Judaic Studies Books Published
* "Little Men"
* "Bad Jews and Other Stories" (Zoland Books )
* "From Hunger" (University of Missouri Press)Awards
Honor Award in Fiction from The
Nebraska Center for the Book and theOhio State University Prize in Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and theEdward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction. He has also been a finalist for the 2000 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Also won a Merit Award from the Nebraska Arts Council's Individual Artists Fellowships programOther Publications
His stories have appeared in "
Ploughshares , Witness,The Kenyon Review ,Gettysburg Review ,Missouri Review ,Quarterly West ,Southern Review ", and elsewhere.
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