Kirk Nesset

Kirk Nesset is author of MR. AGREEABLE and PARADISE ROAD (fiction), SAINT X (poems), ALPHABET OF THE WORLD (translations), and THE STORIES OF RAYMOND CARVER (nonfiction). He was awarded the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 2007 and has received a Pushcart Prize as well as grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His stories, poems, translations and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Agni, The Sun and Prairie Schooner. His shorter fiction has been widely anthologized, most recently in W. W. Norton's Flash Fiction Forward, Flash Fiction International, New Sudden Fiction and Sudden Fiction Latino. He has taught writing and literature at UC Santa Barbara, Whittier College and Allegheny College, and served as writer in residence at the Chautauqua Writers Center and Black Forest Writing Seminars.

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