Ronald F. CarlsonProfessor, English Co-Director, MFA Programs in Writing (Fiction), English |
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Research Interests |
Creative Writing; Fiction; Contemporary Literature; Short Stories | |
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Academic Distinctions |
2009 Aspen Literary Award, Aspen Writers’ Foundation. 2008 McGinnis Award for fiction, Iowa Review, Univ. of Iowa. 2005 cited in The Best American Short Stories as among "100 Other Distinguished Stories of the Year" [also cited: 2004, 2003, 1999, 1997(three times), 1996, 1993, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984 (twice). 2004 Named Regents’ Professor of English, Arizona State University. Top 1 percent of professors. 2003 Named Foundation Professor at Arizona State University. |
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| Publications | Books (selected) | |
| The Signal (novel) Viking, New York, June 2009. Recorded Books 2009. | ||
| Five Skies, (novel), Viking, New York, May 2007; Viking Penguin paperback June 2008. Audio Books 2008. | ||
| Ron Carlson Writes a Story, (writing text), Graywolf, Minneapolis, New York, June 2007. | ||
| A Kind of Flying; The Selected Stories of Ron Carlson W.W. Norton and Co., New York, October 2003. | ||
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The Speed of Light, (novel) HarperCollins/Tempest, New York, New York, June 2003; HarperCollins paperback 2004. |
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| At the Jim Bridger, (stories) Picador/St.Martin, New York, New York, May 2002; Picador (paperback) 2003. German edition from Verlagsgruppe Random House 2005. | ||
| Stories In Anthologies (selected) | ||
| Best American Mystery Stories 2009 ed. TK, Houghton Mifflin, September 2009. (“Beanball”) | ||
| New Sudden Fiction ed. By Thomas and Shapard, W.W.Norton, New York, January 2007. (“The Gold Lunch”) | ||
| Flash Fiction Forward 2006, ed. By Thomas and Shapard, W.W. Norton, New York, 2006. (“The Great Open Mouth Anti-Sadness) | ||
| What If? (2nd edition) ed. Bernays, Painter, Pearson Longman Publishers 2003. (“Some of Our Work with Monsters.”) | ||
| American Short Stories since 1945, ed. John Parks, Oxford University Press 2001. ("Oxygen") | ||
| Short Fiction (selected) | ||
| “The Great American Anti-Sadness,” Esquire Japan, Tokyo, Japan, July 2009. (reprint) | ||
| The Exploits of the Adventure Boys,” Best Life, New York, December 2008. | ||
| “Victory at Sea,” The Iowa Review, Univ. of Iowa, December 2008. | ||
| “Five Skies,” (reprint Chapter one and two), Neon, Nevada Arts Commission, Carson City, Nevada. Summer 2008. | ||
| “Beanball,” One Story, Issue 99/100, Brooklyn, NY January 2008. | ||
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5395 | |
| Last updated | 09/27/2009 | |