Tim Johnston (writer)
Tim Johnston (born Iowa City) is the author of the story collection Irish Girl and the novels Never So Green and Descent: a novel.
Life[]
He graduated from the University of Iowa, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1] He worked as a carpenter.[2] He is the 2011 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at The George Washington University.
His stories have also appeared in Best Life Magazine, California Quarterly,[3] Colorado Review,[4] Double Take, New England Review, New Letters, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, , and Narrative Magazine.
Awards[]
Irish Girl won an O. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 in Short Fiction.[1][5]
In 2005, the title story, "Irish Girl," was included in the David Sedaris anthology of favorites, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules.
Works[]
- "Two Years", Narrative
- Descent: a novel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. 2015. ISBN 9781616203047. OCLC 866938509.
- Irish Girl. University of North Texas Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-57441-271-0.
- Never so green. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 2002. ISBN 978-0-374-35509-8.
References[]
- ^ a b "Tim Johnston".
- ^ "- University of North Texas Press".
- ^ California quarterly, Issues 37-38
- ^ Colorado review, Volume 34
- ^ "TIM JOHNSTON". Archived from the original on 2013-01-22.
External links[]
- Author's blog
- "Tim Johnston's Irish Girl", Iowa Review, Sara Jaffe
- "Interview with Tim Johnston", Forth Magazine, Carolyn Blais, March 12, 2010
- "Interview: Tim Johnston", pagetopixels, 22 April 2011
- Tim Johnston, Master Craftsman, GW English September 16, 2011
- American short story writers
- Living people
- Writers from Iowa City, Iowa
- University of Iowa alumni
- University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni