Perry Glasser
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Perry Glasser is a novelist, short story writer, memoirist, essayist, and teacher. Glasser’s imaginative work often explores the diminishing options of characters undergoing emotional stress until their only remaining choice is violence; his memoirs and essays illuminate questions of how we live now. Strongly influenced by his decade of teaching at an all girls’ public school and his years as a single parent to a daughter, his subject matter frequently includes stories of young women coming of age.
in 1985. His most recent collection, Dangerous Places, received the 2008 G.S Sharat Chandra Prize from BkMk Press and was listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
http://web2.umkc.edu/bkmk/. http://www.munsterlit.ie/ and was named the Best Literary Short Fiction 2009 by USA Book News http://www.usabooknews.com/fiction/shortstoryfiction. Glasser has been in residence at Yaddo
, The Ucross Foundation
, The Norman Mailer House, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
In 2009, Glasser received the Gival Press Short Story Award 2009 for "I-95 Southbound." His other short fiction awards include the P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Project prizes in 1985, 1986 and 1993. His short fiction has appeared in many anthologies and literary journals including The Antioch Review, TriQuarterly
, and North American Review
, for which he serves as a Contributing Editor. Two of his novellas appeared in 2007 in Next Stop Hollywood, an anthology from St. Martin’s Press. Glasser is at work on a novel, Family Matters.
Foundation Book Project. Glasser is at work on a collection to be entitled metamemoirs.
Opinion page, Chicago Tribune
Books, and The Boston Globe
. His column, “Virtual View,”http://www.jstor.org/pss/25126148 identifying cultural implications of the emerging Internet, ran from 1995 until 2000 in North American Review
. Glasser writes a regular column, "Ask Glassbrain," for The Good Men Project
Magazine.
, Bradford College, Wichita State University
, and at Salem State University, where he currently coordinates the Professional Writing Program. He received his MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Arizona
in 1983.
Among his writing students were Matthew Stover
, Scott Allie
, and David Crouse
.
Perry Glasser lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts
.
Fiction
Glasser received the Gival Press Novel Award in 2011 for the forthcoming novel, Riverton Noir. Glasser received the Minnesota Voices Competition First Prize from New Rivers Press for his collection Suspicious Origins in 1983. His second collection of short fiction, Singing on the Titanic appeared from the University of Illinois PressUniversity of Illinois Press
The University of Illinois Press , is a major American university press and part of the University of Illinois system. Founded in 1918, the press publishes some 120 new books each year, plus 33 scholarly journals, and several electronic projects...
in 1985. His most recent collection, Dangerous Places, received the 2008 G.S Sharat Chandra Prize from BkMk Press and was listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is a literary award for short story collections. At 35,000 euro for the best book of short stories it claims to be the world's largest prize for a short story collection. Each year, roughly sixty books are longlisted, with either four or six books...
http://web2.umkc.edu/bkmk/. http://www.munsterlit.ie/ and was named the Best Literary Short Fiction 2009 by USA Book News http://www.usabooknews.com/fiction/shortstoryfiction. Glasser has been in residence at Yaddo
Yaddo
Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400 acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment."...
, The Ucross Foundation
Ucross Foundation
The Ucross Foundation, located in Ucross, Wyoming, is a nonprofit organization that operates an internationally known retreat for visual artists, writers, composers and choreographers working in all creative disciplines.-History:...
, The Norman Mailer House, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
In 2009, Glasser received the Gival Press Short Story Award 2009 for "I-95 Southbound." His other short fiction awards include the P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Project prizes in 1985, 1986 and 1993. His short fiction has appeared in many anthologies and literary journals including The Antioch Review, TriQuarterly
TriQuarterly
TriQuarterly Online is a not-for-profit American literary magazine published twice a year at Northwestern University that features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, literary essays, reviews, a blog, and graphic art....
, and North American Review
North American Review
The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to J. H. Smyth, who had purchased the magazine, being unmasked as a Japanese...
, for which he serves as a Contributing Editor. Two of his novellas appeared in 2007 in Next Stop Hollywood, an anthology from St. Martin’s Press. Glasser is at work on a novel, Family Matters.
Memoirs
Glasser’s memoirs began appearing in 1993 in such journals as Boulevard and The Northwest Review. Most recently, in 2009, "Iowa Black Dirt", Glasser’s memoir of being a single parent, received first prize from The Good Men ProjectThe Good Men Project
The Good Men Project was founded in 2009 by Tom Matlack and James Houghton as a way to allow men to tell stories about the defining moments in their lives...
Foundation Book Project. Glasser is at work on a collection to be entitled metamemoirs.
Essays & Reviews
His critical reviews and essays have appeared The New York Times Book Review, The New York TimesThe New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
Opinion page, Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
Books, and The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993...
. His column, “Virtual View,”http://www.jstor.org/pss/25126148 identifying cultural implications of the emerging Internet, ran from 1995 until 2000 in North American Review
North American Review
The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to J. H. Smyth, who had purchased the magazine, being unmasked as a Japanese...
. Glasser writes a regular column, "Ask Glassbrain," for The Good Men Project
The Good Men Project
The Good Men Project was founded in 2009 by Tom Matlack and James Houghton as a way to allow men to tell stories about the defining moments in their lives...
Magazine.
Teaching
Glasser has taught at Bay Ridge High School in New York City, at Drake UniversityDrake University
Drake University is a private, co-educational university located in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The institution offers a number of undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and pharmacy. Today, Drake is one of the twenty-five oldest law schools in the country....
, Bradford College, Wichita State University
Wichita State University
Wichita State University is a NCAA Division I public university in Wichita, Kansas with selective admissions. WSU is one of six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The current president is Dr. Donald Beggs....
, and at Salem State University, where he currently coordinates the Professional Writing Program. He received his MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
in 1983.
Among his writing students were Matthew Stover
Matthew Stover
Matthew Woodring Stover is an American fantasy and science fiction novelist. He is perhaps best known for his four Star Wars novels, including the novelization of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He has also written several fantasy novels, including Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon...
, Scott Allie
Scott Allie
Scott Allie is an American comics writer and editor, currently the Senior Managing Editor for Dark Horse Comics.-Career:Scott Allie is the author of The Devil's Footprints and the editor of the Hellboy, Conan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Serenity comics, as well as the founding editor of Dark...
, and David Crouse
David Crouse
David Crouse is a short story writer and teacher. Crouse's work explores issues of identity and alienation, and his stories are populated with characters living on the fringes of American society. The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was awarded to him in 2005 for his first collection of...
.
Perry Glasser lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts
Haverhill, Massachusetts
Haverhill is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 60,879 at the 2010 census.Located on the Merrimack River, it began as a farming community that would evolve into an important industrial center, beginning with sawmills and gristmills run by water power. In the...
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