Fiction Writer
Murray,
KY
Kentucky US
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Publications & Prizes
Books:
Tehano (Southern Methodist University Press, 2006)
, A Place for Outlaws (Harper & Row, 1989)
, Departing As Air (Simon & Schuster, 1983)
, Blanco (Avon/Bard, 1980)
, Things About to Disappear (Avon/Bard, 1980)
Prizes won:
John Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 2008; Robert Penn Warren Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers; Guggenheim Fellowship; NEA Fellowship; TN Arts Council Individual Artists' Grant; Travel Writer of the Year (1994) from the Alabama Bureau of Travel; graduate students in the University of Tennessee’s Department of English voted Wier the department’s “most outstanding professor in the classroom; Awarded Hodges Distinguished Teaching Char, Univ. of Tennessee. Faculty, Sewanee Writers Conference.
More Information
Gives readings:
Yes
Travels for readings:
Yes
Identifies as:
White
Prefers to work with:
Any
Fluent in:
English
Born in:
San Antonio
Raised in:
Texas, Mexico, Louisiana,
TX
Texas
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Last update: Jul 13, 2016