Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky | |
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| File:Poets Wash Square NYC Poetry Rally December 20, 2014 32.jpg Lisicky in 2014 | |
| Born | July 9, 1959 (age 66) |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Author |
| Employer | Rutgers University–Camden |
Paul Lisicky (born July 9, 1959) is an American novelist and memoirist. He is an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, and the author of several books.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Lisicky was born on July 9, 1959. He grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey,[1] and graduated from Cherry Hill High School East.[2] He graduated from Rutgers University–New Brunswick, earned an MA from Rutgers University–Camden and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[3]
Career
[edit | edit source]Lisicky taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Rutgers University-Newark, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and elsewhere. He is now an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden.
Lisicky is the author of seven books: Lawnboy,[4] Famous Builder,[5] The Burning House, Unbuilt Projects, The Narrow Door,[6] Later: My Life at the Edge of the World,[7] and Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell.
His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Ecotone, Fence, The New York Times, The Offing, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a Fellow. He is the editor of StoryQuarterly and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
In 2021, Paul Lisicky appeared on Storybound reading an excerpt from Later : my life at the edge of the world, with music sampled from Jordan Warmack.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Lisicky lives in Brooklyn, New York City. From 1995 until 2011, his partner was the writer Mark Doty. They were married in 2008 and divorced in 2013.[8][9]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Literary analysis
- LGBT culture in New York City
- List of LGBT people from New York City
- NYC Pride March
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Korman, Nina. "Lawnboy's Own Story: The Miami Book Fair International", Miami New Times, November 11, 1999. Accessed November 29, 2008. "Lisicky's book, a six-year project, is an evocative, sensitively rendered portrait of a young gay man coming of age in our parts. The author grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, lives most of the year in Houston, Texas, where he teaches, and spends the summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts."
- ^ Kelley, Tina. "Jersey-Born Author Revisits Life During AIDS Epidemic", New Jersey Monthly, March 23, 2020. AccessedOctober 20, 2025. "Lisicky, a product of Cherry Hill East High School and Rutgers University, revisits 1991–1994, his years in the gay-embracing arts scene at the tip of Cape Cod, where he discovered how it felt to live at one with his body."
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- ^ Guthmann, Edward. "Memories Of a Lost Childhood", San Francisco Chronicle, November 3, 1999. Accessed October 16, 2007. "His partner of four years, novelist Paul Lisicky (Lawnboy), travels with him and provided a valuable sounding board during the writing of Firebird."
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Graywolf Press page for Paul Lisicky
- Writers on the Edge: Paul Lisicky
- Review of Lawnboy from the Austin Chronicle
- Interview with Windy City Times
- Official Site
- Blog
- Radio Interview with Paul Lisicky on "Read First, Ask Later" (Ep. 21)
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American male writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American memoirists
- American male novelists
- American gay writers
- American male non-fiction writers
- Cherry Hill High School East alumni
- Writers from Cherry Hill, New Jersey
- Writers from New York City
- Rutgers University alumni
- Sarah Lawrence College faculty
- University of Iowa alumni
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- American LGBTQ novelists
- Novelists from New York (state)