Mark Jude Poirier
Mark Jude Poirier is the author of two collections of short stories, two novels, and with Owen King and Nancy Ahn, a graphic novel. His books have been New York Times notable books of the year, as well as Barnes and Noble Discover and Waterstone’s UK picks. He has published nearly thirty short stories which have appeared in Tin House, The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, BOMB, The Southern Review, The American Scholar, Epoch, The Georgia Review, Subtropics, and many other journals and anthologies. He has won an O.Henry Award and a Pushcart Prize, and his story “This Is Not How Good People Die” was long-listed for the Sunday Times Short Story Award in 2021.
In addition, the films he has written, Smart People, Goats, and Hateship Loveship, have played at Sundance, The Toronto International Film Festival, MoMA, The American Film Festival in Deauville, and in theaters all over the world. They stream often.
He has taught fiction writing and screenwriting at many colleges and universities including Harvard, Columbia, The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Bennington, LSU, Portland State, and most recently, he served as the Forese Writer In Residence at Colby College.
He grew up in Tucson and was educated at Georgetown, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and The Iowa Writers’ Workshop.