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Padgett Powell Curriculum Vitae Padgett Powell Curriculum vitae 3620 se 27th Street Department of English Gainesville, FL 32641 Box 117310 Phone (352) 338-7533 University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611 Phone 352 294 2880 Fax 352 392 0860 Email [email protected] EDUCATION University of Houston, TX English M.A. 1982 College of Charleston, SC Chemistry B.A. 1975 TEACHING Disquiet Literary Seminar, Lisbon, Faculty, 2014, 2016 University of Alaska Residency, 2014 S ewanee Writers' Conference, Faculty, 2010 Summer Literary Seminars, Montreal, Canada, Faculty, 2010 Summer Literary Seminars, Nairobi, Kenya, Faculty, 2006 Summer Literary Seminars, St. Petersburg, Russia, Faculty, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 Kittredge Visiting Professor, University of Montana, Fall 2001 Sewanee Writers' Conference, Faculty, 1999, 2000, 2001 Professor, Department of English, University of Florida, 1993 to present Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1989-90 Associate Professor, University of Florida, 1988-1993 Assistant Professor, University of Florida, 1984-1988 HONORS 2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2011 Fellowship of Southern Writers 2002 Honorary Doctorate of Letters, College of Charleston, SC 2002 Mary Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters 1999 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Term Professorship, University of Florida 1998 Foundation William Faulkner, University of Rennes, France, writer in residence 1996 Teaching Improvement Award, State of Florida 1993 Teaching Improvement Award, State of Florida 1991 Paris Review John Train Humor Prize 1990 Pushcart Prize 1989 Fulbright Lectureship, Turkey 1987 American Academy Prix de Rome 1986 Whiting Foundation Writers' Award 1984 American Book Award Nominee (Edisto) 1984 TIME Magazine Best-of-Year Fiction list (Edisto) 1981 Henfield Foundation Transatlantic Review Award EDITORIAL WORK 2002 Final Judge, Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest 1999-2001 Editorial board, Sewanee Overlook Press Series 1997 Juror for Mississippi Review Prize Fiction Issue 1996 Regional Juror for GRANTA Best American Novelists Under Forty 1991 Whiting Foundation Selection Committee MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES IN THE PROFESSION Authors Guild Screenwriters Guild of America, East American Academy at Rome Society of Fellows PUBLICATIONS Books Cries For Help, Various, Catapult, New York, 2015, 182pp. Hologram, Open Road Media, New York, 2014, ebook, 111pp. Edisto, Open Road Media, New York, 2014, ebook, 191pp. A Woman Named Drown, Open Road Media, NewYork, 2014, ebook, 169pp. Typical, Open Road Media, New York, 2014, ebook, 211pp. Edisto Revisited, Open Road Media, New York, 2014, ebook, 169pp. Aliens of Affection, Open Road Media, New York, 2014, ebook, 209pp. You & Me, Ecco Press, New York, 2013, paper, 194 pp. You & I, Serpent’s Tail, Profile Books, London, 2013, paper, 182pp. Edisto, Serpent’s Tail, Profile Books, London, 2012, paper, 183pp. You & Me, Recorded Books, Henry Strozier, narrator, New York, 2012, 4 compact discs, 4.25 hours. You & Me, Ecco Press, New York, 2012, 194pp. 5 Stories and a Piece of You & Me, HarperCollins, New York, 2012, Epub, 51pp. The Imperative Mood, Serpent's Tail, London, 2012, Epub, 18pp. The Interrogative Mood, Serpemt’s Tail, Profile Books, London, 2011, paper, 164pp. You & I, Serpent’s Tail, Profile Books, London, 2011, 182pp. The Interrogative Mood, Profile Books, London, 2010, 164pp. The Interrogative Mood, Ecco Press, New York, 2010, paper, 178pp. The Interrogative Mood, Ecco Press, New York, 2009, 164pp. Edisto, Farrar Straus & Giroux Classics, New York, 2009, 183pp. Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men, Recorded Books, New York, 2003, 3 cassettes/3.75 hours. Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men, LSU Press, Baton Rouge, LA, 2002, paper, 134 pp. Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2000, 134 pp. Aliens of Affection, Henry Holt Owl Books, New York, 1998, 221 pp. Aliens of Affection, Henry Holt, New York, 1998, 221 pp. Edisto Revisited, Henry Holt Owl Books, New York, 1997, 145 pp. Edisto, Henry Holt Owl Books, New York, 1996, 183 pp. Edisto Revisited, Henry Holt, New York, 1996, 145 pp. Typical, Henry Holt Owl Books, New York, 1992, 207 pp. Typical, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1991, 207 pp. A Woman Named Drown, Holt Rinehart Winston, New York, 1988, 179 pp. A Woman Named Drown, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1987, 179 pp. Edisto, Pan Books Ltd., London, 1985, 183 pp. Edisto, Holt Rinehart Winston, New York, 1985, 183 pp. Edisto, Secker & Warburg, London, 1984, 192 pp. Edisto, Quality Paperback Book Club, Middletown, PA, 1984, 183 pp. Edisto, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1984, 183 pp. Books in translation Edisto, Editions Belfond, Paris, forthcoming. Schrottplatz Der Gebrochenen, Harry Rowohlt, trans., Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 2013, 299pp. Roman in Fragen, Harry Rowohlt trans., Berlin Verlag, Berlin, paper, 2013, 191pp. El Sentido Interrogativo, Albert Fuentes, trans., Ediciones Alpha Decay, Barcelona, 2012, 155pp. Le mode interrogatif: roman?, Olivia Roussel, trans. , Editions rue fromentin, Paris, 2012, 232pp. Roman in Fragen, Harry Rowohlt trans., Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 2012, 191pp. The Interrogative Mood: Romanzo?, Ugo Guanda Editore, Parma, 2011, 137pp. De Vragende Vorm [The Interrogative Mood], Uitgeverij Paradigma, Amsterdam, 2010, 175pp. Edisto, Rowholt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 1999, 204 pp. Typical, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt, 199x. Ruckkehr nach Edisto [Edisto Revisited], Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 1997, 175 pp. Edisto, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 1997, 204 pp. Uma Mulher Chamada Drown [A Woman Named Drown], Editorial Presenca, Lisbon, 1990, 155 pp. A Woman Named Drown, Editions Pierre Belfond, Paris, 199x. A Woman Named Drown, P.A. Norstedt and Soner, Stockholm, 199x. Eine Frau mit Namen Drown [A Woman Named Drown], Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt, 1990, 184 pp. Edisto, Editorial Presenca, Lisbon, 199x. Edisto, Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona, 1989, 211 pp. Edisto, Editions Pierre Belfond, Paris, 1988, 195 pp. Edisto, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Rome, 1987, 158 pp. Etelan Oppipoika [Edisto], Werner Soderstrom, Juva, 1987, 184 pp. Edisto, P.A. Norstedt and Soner, Stockholm, 1986, 227 pp. [Edisto], Cadim Publishers, Tel Aviv, 1986, 144 pp. Edisto, Hayakawa Publishing, Inc., Tokyo, 1986, 224 pp. Edisto, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt, 1985, 218 pp. Books, contributor of chapter or introduction “The Lunacy of Gumbo,” Short Story Advent Calendar 2016, Michael Hingston, ed., Hingston & Olsen, Canada, 2016, day 23. “The Lunacy of Gumbo,” The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook, Natalie Eve Garrett, ed., Powerhouse Books, Brooklyn, 2016, 32-34. “Mile-o-Mud,” Dear Dave, Issue 14, Summer 2013, 56-70. “Ode to Spode,” Literary Dogs & Their South Carolina Writers, John Lane and Betsy Wakefield Teter, eds., Hub City Press, Spartanburg SC, 71- 75. “Family Camping,” Hello Nature, William Wegman, Delmonico Books, Prestel, New York, 2012, 61-70. “Mickey Mouse Patch,” Significant Objects, Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker, eds., Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 2012, item 95. Remarks from the Dedication of the Donald Barthelme Papers, University of Houston Library, April 15, 2005, “Come Back, Donald Barthelme: A Symposium,” Justin Taylor, ed., McSweeney’s, Vol. 24, 2007, 14-16. Untitled tribute to Harry Rowholt, Der Grosse Bar und seine Gestirne von Harry Rowholt, Anna Mikula und Peter Haag, eds., Kein & Aber, Zurich, 2005, 192-193. “The End Is Only Imaginary,” Paul Auster: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views, Harold Bloom, ed., Chelsea House Publications, Philadelphia, 2004, 161- 164. “Bright Furry Diamond,” Our Dogs: A Century of Images and Words from the AKC Gazzette, Random House, 2003, 24-29. “Cur Gumbo Full of Choices and Options,” “Cracker Yucatan Ribs,” The New Great American Writers Cookbook, Dean Faulkner Wells, ed., University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2003,72-73, 166. “Another time I sold a puppy...,” Southern Dogs & Their People, Roberta Gamble, ed., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 2000, 57. "Padgett Powell," For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most, Ronald Shwartz, ed., Grosset/Putnam, New York, 1999, 216-219. "The Goddess of a Secular Church," Flannery O'Connor: A Celebration of Genius, Sarah Gordon, ed., Hill Street Press, Athens Georgia, 2000, 47-51. "What Southern Literature Is," preface to New Stories from the South, The Year's Best, 1998, Shannon Ravenel, ed., Algonquin Press, Chapel Hill, 1998, vii- xiii. Introduction to Mississippi Review 1977 prize issue, Fall 1997, 34-36. Introduction to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Dutton Signet Classic, Penguin Books, New York, 1997, v-xvii. "Full Neurological Work-up," Unleashed, Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard, eds., Crown, New York, 1995, 52-53. "Hitting Back," A World Unsuspected: Portraits of Southern Childhood, Alex Harris, ed., University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1987, 14-35. Serial fiction “Yeltsin and Canaries,” Little Star Weekly, August 28, 2015. “The Cork,” Oxford American, Fall 2015, 12-14. “Yeltsin Spotted Abroad in a Bar,” The Paris Review, Summer 2015, 227-228. “Wagons, Ho!,” The Washington Post Magazine, Summer Fiction Issue 2015, 22- 23. “Gluing Wood,” “Not Much is Known,” Okey-Panky, June 2, 2015. “A Local Boy,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Vol.12.6/13.1, 53-54. “Losing the Wax,” Subtropics, Issue 10, Summer 2010, back cover. “Manifesto,” Little Star, Inaugural Issue, 2010, 125-154. “Cry for Help from France,” Subtropics, Issue 7, Winter/Spring 2009, back cover. “The Interrogative Mood,” The Paris Review, Winter 2008, 153-167. “Many A One,” “Mrs. Stamp,” Johns Hopkins
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