Paul Lisicky
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| Born | July 9, 1959 (age 64) |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Employer | Rutgers University–Camden |
Paul Lisicky (born July 9, 1959) is an American
Early life
Paul Lisicky was born on July 9, 1959. He grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[1] He graduated from Rutgers University–New Brunswick, earned an MA from Rutgers University–Camden and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[2]
Career
Lisicky taught in the creative writing programs at
Lisicky is the author of six books: Lawnboy,[3] Famous Builder,[4] The Burning House, Unbuilt Projects, The Narrow Door,[5] and Later: My Life at the Edge of the World.[6]
His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Ecotone, Fence, The New York Times, The Offing, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a Fellow. He is the editor of StoryQuarterly and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
In 2021, Paul Lisicky appeared on Storybound reading an excerpt from Later : my life at the edge of the world, with music sampled from Jordan Warmack.
Personal life
Lisicky lives in Brooklyn, New York City. From 1995 until 2011, his partner was the writer Mark Doty. They were married in 2008 and divorced in 2013.[7][8]
See also
- Literary analysis
- LGBT culture in New York City
- List of LGBT people from New York City
References
- ^ Korman, Nina. "Lawnboy's Own Story: The Miami Book Fair International", Miami New Times, November 11, 1999. Accessed November 29, 2008. "Lisicky's book, a six-year project, is an evocative, sensitively rendered portrait of a young gay man coming of age in our parts. The author grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, lives most of the year in Houston, Texas, where he teaches, and spends the summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts."
- ^ "CV" (PDF). Paul Lisicky. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
- OCLC 70200305.
- OCLC 50822004.
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- OCLC 1102182660.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ Guthmann, Edward. "Memories Of a Lost Childhood", San Francisco Chronicle, November 3, 1999. Accessed October 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."
- ^ "New Life". Retrieved Jan 7, 2020.
External links
- Graywolf Press page for Paul Lisicky
- Writers on the Edge: Paul Lisicky
- Review of Lawnboy from the Austin Chronicle
- Interview with Windy City Times
- Official Site
- Blog
- Radio Interview with Paul Lisicky on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 21)
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