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Paul Lisicky

Biography

Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky is the author of THE NARROW DOOR, as well as LAWNBOY, FAMOUS BUILDER and THE BURNING HOUSE. His work has appeared in Tin House, Fence,Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Story Quarterly, Gulf Coast, and in many other magazines and anthologies. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a fellow. He has taught in the writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Rutgers-Newark, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, and elsewhere. He is currently the New Voices Professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers-Camden. He divides his time between New York City and Philadelphia.

Paul Lisicky

Books by Paul Lisicky

by Paul Lisicky - Nonfiction

Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships --- one with a female novelist and the other with his ex-husband, a poet. The contours of these relationships shift constantly. Denise and Paul, stretched by the demands of their writing lives, drift apart, and Paul's romance begins to falter. And the world around them is frail: environmental catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, natural disasters like the earthquake in Haiti and local disturbances make an unsettling backdrop to the pressing concerns of Denise's cancer diagnosis and Paul's impending breakup.