Mary C. Mohr Short Fiction Award 2009 Judge

For over twenty-five years, Alan Cheuse has been “reading for America” every week on NPR’s All Things Considered. He’s also been writing a number of books of his own and teaching the art of narrative and literature at George Mason University for over twenty years. Cheuse is the author of many books, including the novels The Grandmothers’ Club and The Light Possessed; the short story collections Lost and Old Rivers and The Tennessee Waltz; and a memoir, Fall Out of Heaven. His latest novel, To Catch the Lightning, won the Grub Street National Prize for Fiction for 2009.  His collection of travel essays A Trance After Breakfast appeared in June. With fellow novelist Nicholas Delbanco he wrote the newly published Literature: Craft & Voice, an introduction to college literary study. Since the late 1980s he has taught in the MFA program at George Mason University and at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers summer conference.

 

 

 

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