Tom Barbash

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Tom Barbash
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Author, writer, and educator
Notable workThe Dakota Winters (novel)

Tom Barbash is an American

nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic.[1][2]

Speaker, panelist, and interviewer

Barbash has served as host for onstage events for The Commonwealth Club, Litquake, BookPassage, and the Lannan Foundation.[3]

Teaching

He taught at Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow, and now teaches novel writing, short fiction, and nonfiction in the MFA Program in Writing at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Barbash has held fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The James Michener Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.[4]

Writer and literary critic

Barbash is the author of the novels Dakota Winters

New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.[2]

He was formerly a reporter for the

Syracuse Post-Standard, an experience that helped to shape his novel The Last Good Chance.[citation needed
]

Bibliography

Honors

  • Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
  • MacDowell Colony
    Fellow
  • California Book Award
    for First Fiction (2002)
  • James Michener Award (2002)
  • Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction
  • Recipient,
    National Endowment of the Arts grant in fiction
    .

Personal life

Barbash lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2]

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