- Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky (born
July 9 ,1959 ) is an Americannovel ist andmemoir ist. He grew up in Cherry Hill Township,New Jersey .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 theUniversity of Iowa Writers' Workshop. While a student at Iowa, he won aNational 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" and the memoir "Famous Builder".He has taught creative writing at The
University of Houston ,Antioch University , andSarah Lawrence College , in addition to several 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 . His partner since 1995 is poetMark Doty . [Guthmann, Edward. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/03/DD17641.DTL&type=books "Memories Of a Lost Childhood"] , "San Francisco Chronicle ",November 3 ,1999 . AccessedOctober 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."]References
External links
* [http://www.writersontheedge.org/Lisicky.html Writers on the Edge: Paul Lisicky]
* [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid%3A74968 Review of "Lawnboy"] from the "Austin Chronicle "
* [http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=3321 Interview] with "Windy City Times "
* [http://www.paullisicky.com Official Site]
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