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The NYU Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce that Lorrie Moore will be the 2013 Distinguished Fiction Writer-in-Residence. Lorrie Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York. In 1985, her first collection of short stories, Self Help, was published by Knopf and met with critical acclaim. Subsequent books include Anagrams [1986], Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? [1994], Birds of America [1998], Like Life [1990], and The Forgotten Helper [1997], a children’s book. She has edited I Know Some Things: Contemporary Stories About Children Viewing the World [1992] and The Best American Short Stories 2004. Her most recent book, A Gate at the Stairs, is a novel published by Knopf in 2009. Lorrie Moore has been the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Foundation Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Irish Time International Prize for Fiction, and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her stories and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books as well as other periodicals, and in collections including The O’Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. |
