Alexi Zentner
Alexi Zentner | |
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| Born | August 29, 1973 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Short story writer, novelist |
| Education | Grinnell College (BA) Cornell University (MFA) |
Alexi Zentner (born August 29, 1973 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian-American short story writer, and novelist.
Life
[edit | edit source]He graduated from Grinnell College with a BA[1] and Cornell University with an MFA.[2] He taught at Cornell University.[3][4][5] He's now on the faculty at Binghamton University.[6]
His fiction has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly,[7] Narrative Magazine (where it was awarded the 2008 Narrative Prize).[8]
He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and two children.
Awards
[edit | edit source]His short story "Touch," originally published in Tin House is featured in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 where it was chosen as a jury favorite by author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.[9] Two of Alexi's short stories were also selected for "special mention" in the 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology. "Trapline" was awarded the 2008 Narrative Prize.
His debut novel Touch was a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize[10] and shortlisted for the Governor General Award for English-language fiction.[11]
Works
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]- Copperhead (novel) (Penguin Random House, 2019)[12]
- The Lobster Kings (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014)[13]
- Touch (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011)[14]
Short fiction
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Zentner also writes mysteries and horror novels under the pen name Ezekiel Boone.[15]
References
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- ^ "DeWitt, Edugyan, Ondaatje and Vanderhaege among 17 on Giller long list" Archived 2012-04-20 at the Wayback Machine. The Globe and Mail, September 6, 2011.
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External links
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- Living people
- Cornell University alumni
- Grinnell College alumni
- 21st-century American novelists
- Canadian male short story writers
- Writers from Kitchener, Ontario
- American male novelists
- Canadian male novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- American male short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- 1973 births
- 21st-century American male writers
- O. Henry Award winners
- Novelists from Ontario