Gerald Shapiro

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 writer Judith Slater.

Education

B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas; M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University 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 the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize for Fiction and the Edward 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 program

Other 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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