Jonathan Penner (born 1940 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American writer.
Life
He graduated from the University of Bridgeport and from the University of Iowa with an M.F.A., M.A., and Ph.D, which he earned in 1966.[1] He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He taught at the New School for Social Research, Southern Illinois University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Hawaii. Since 1978 he has lived in Tucson; he has been married since 1968 to Lucille Recht Penner.[2] He is now emeritus (retired) from the University of Arizona's Creative Writing Program. He believes the fiction workshop is fundamental to the academic practice of learning creative writing.[3]
His stories have appeared in Grand Street, Paris Review,[4] Commentary, Ploughshares.
Awards
- 1983 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, for Private Parties
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship
- Fulbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia
- 2002 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, for This is My Voice
Works
Novels
Short stories
Anthologies
- Dennis Trudell, ed. (1996). "At Center". Full court: a literary anthology of basketball. Breakaway Books. ISBN 978-1-55821-504-7.
References
- ↑ "University of Arizona - Department of English -". Archived from the original on 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2012-12-11.
- ↑ "Read by Author | Ploughshares".
- ↑ "University of Arizona - Department of English -". Archived from the original on 2010-06-28. Retrieved 2012-12-11.
- ↑ "The Paris Review - Spring 1987". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-09-27.