Bret Anthony Johnston

Bret Anthony Johnston

Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author and former professional skateboarder best known for his multi-award winning debut story collection, "Corpus Christi: Stories".

Publishing background

Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the internationally acclaimed "Corpus Christi: Stories" (Random House, 2004). Named a Best Book of the Year by "The Independent" of London and "The Irish Times", the collection has received the "Southern Review"'s Annual Short Fiction Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, the Texas Institute of Letters' Debut Fiction Award, the Christopher Isherwood Prize, the James Michener Fellowship, and was shortlisted for Ireland's Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, "the richest short story prize in the world."

His work appears in magazines such as "The Paris Review", "Oxford American", and "Tin House", and in anthologies such as "New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2003, 2004, and 2005", "Best American Short Stories", and "Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards". He is a graduate of Miami University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. He has written essays for "Slate.com" and NPR's "All Things Considered", and he’s been a skateboarder for almost twenty years. In 2006, the National Book Foundation honored him with a new National Book Award for writers under 35. Currently, he is Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University.

Works

tory collections

*"Corpus Christi: Stories", (2004)

As editor or contributor

*"New Stories from the South 2003: The Year's Best" (story, "Corpus"), (2003)
*"New Stories from the South 2004: The Year's Best" (story, "The Widow"), (2004)
*"A Dixie Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers" (story, "Buy for Me the Rain"), (2005)
*"New Stories from the South 2005: The Year's Best" (story, "Anything That Floats"), (2005)
*"Naming the World And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer", (editor) (2008)

External links

* [http://www.bretanthonyjohnston.com/ Official Bret Anthony Johnston website]
* " [http://www.independent.co.uk/ The Independent of London] "
* " [http://www.ireland.com/ The Irish Times] "
* " [http://www.lsu.edu/tsr/index.html The Southern Review] "
* [http://shenandoah.wlu.edu/glasgow.html The Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers]
* [http://www.smu.edu/english/creativewriting/The_Texas_Institute_of_Letters.htm Texas Institute of Letters]
* [http://www.isherwoodfoundation.org/grant_recipients.htm Christopher Isherwood Prizewinners]
* [http://www.munsterlit.ie/FOC/FOC%20Award%20Info.htm the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award]
* [http://www.uiowa.edu/~iww/index.html Iowa Writers' Workshop]
* [http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35.html#bret National Book Award]


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