ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.
Listen "Jonathan Escoffery on How Nella Larsen’s Helga Crane Influenced His Debut Collection"
Episode Synopsis
On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell Kaplan is joined by Jonathan Escoffery to discuss his debut collection, If I Survive You, out now from MCD.
Jonathan Escoffery is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, Passages North, Zyzzyva, and Electric Literature, and has been anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing. He received his MFA from the University of Minnesota, is a PhD fellow in the University of Southern California’s PhD in Creative Writing and Literature Program, and in 2021 was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. If I Survive You is his debut book.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jonathan Escoffery is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, Passages North, Zyzzyva, and Electric Literature, and has been anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing. He received his MFA from the University of Minnesota, is a PhD fellow in the University of Southern California’s PhD in Creative Writing and Literature Program, and in 2021 was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. If I Survive You is his debut book.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More episodes of the podcast The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan
Introducing The Lit Hub Podcast
13/09/2024
Chef Eric Ripert
23/02/2024
John Grisham on Good Fiction and Big Issues
03/11/2023
Dean Koontz on His Life and His Work
18/08/2023
Campbell McGrath: Reading Poetry Aloud
04/08/2023
In God we trust