Skip Horack
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| Born | Bruce Maclachlan Horack, Jr.[1] May 24, 1976 |
| Occupation | Author, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | The Southern Cross (2009) The Eden Hunter (2010) The Other Joseph (2015) |
Bruce Maclachlan "Skip" Horack, Jr. (born May 24, 1976) is an American writer.
Life and career
[edit | edit source]He was raised in Covington, Louisiana[2] where he attended St. Paul's School.
Horack holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. from Florida State University. He worked as a lawyer for five years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana[3] before committing fully to writing and teaching.
He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University,[4] and is currently an associate professor at Florida State University.[5]
His story collection The Southern Cross, which won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize,[6] was published in 2009 by Mariner Books. The contest was judged by Antonya Nelson, who called the story collection "a knockout winner." Hailed as a "storyteller of uncommon talent," Horack's stories are "artfully evoked and deeply felt"[7] and depict characters that are "vital, funny, and heartbreakingly human."[8]
His novel The Eden Hunter was published in August 2010 by Counterpoint and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.[9] Reviewer Sven Birkerts noted: "Horack, the author of a well-received story collection, The Southern Cross, writes luminous, clean prose....He has a poet’s tuned attentiveness, but never uses his sentences to preen."[10]
His novel The Other Joseph was published in March 2015 by Ecco. Publishers Weekly called it an "exciting, well-plotted sophomore novel" that "delivers satisfying plot turns."[11]
Horack's fiction and nonfiction has also appeared in Oxford American,[12] The Southeast Review, New Delta Review, Louisiana Literature, The Southern Review, StoryQuarterly, Epoch, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere.[13][14]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website
- New York Times Book Review review of The Eden Hunter
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