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Perry W Glasser

Professional Details

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Professional Biography

Perry Glasser has published three collections of his short fiction, Suspicious Origins (St. Paul: New Rivers Press), Singing on the Titanic (Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press), a book recorded by the Library of Congress for access by the blind, and Dangerous Places, the winner of the 2008 G.S. Chandra Prize for short fiction (BkMk Press - Univ. Missouri-KC). In 2009 he was awarded a First Prize by the Good Men Foundation for his memoir, "Iowa Black Dirt." His work has twice been read on National Public Radio's "The Sound of Writing," has three times won P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards, twice won the Boston Fiction Festival Prize, and his essays have been featured in The Boston Globe. He has been named at fellow at Ucross, Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is a Contributing Editor of The North American Review. Two of his novellas were featured in Next Stop Hollywood, a collection of fiction from St. Martins Press (2007).

From 1996 to 2002, Perry Glasser worked as a staff writer and editor for business and consumer magazines, including a stint as Editor in Chief of Web Guide. His consumer freelance magazine journalism has appeared in such venues as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Poets & Writers, Phi Delta Kappan, and Dads; his book reviews have been featured in The New York Times Book Review and The Chicago Tribune's Sunday Review of Books.

With a B.A. in English with a Concentration in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Perry Glasser began his teaching career with a decade before the chalkboards of Bay Ridge High School in his hometown, Brooklyn. After leaving public school teaching, Perry earned his MFA degree in Fiction Writing at the University of Arizona. He then taught writing and literature for three years at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, followed by a decade at Bradford College in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he became a Professor of English in 1991. He left in 1995 to become an editor in the private sector.

Perry returned to academe with a one-year stint as Director of the Writing Program and Visiting Professor of English at Wichita State University from 2002-2003. He then accepted appointment to the faculty of Salem State College in September 2003 where he now is Professor of English and Coordinator of Professional Writing.

(see: www.perryglasser.com)

Professional Interests

Fiction, memoir, literary journalism, the uses of New Media, knowledge management -- harvesting, processing, and disseminating information -- custom publishing, online publishing, narrative forms, story-telling.

Responsibilities

Coordinator of Professional Writing at Salem State College

Selected Publications

Bibliography

DANGEROUS PLACES

(BkMk Press - University of Missouri - Kansas City- 2009)

First prize G.S Sharat Chandra Prize 2008

SINGING ON THE TITANIC: STORIES BY PERRY GLASSER

(Urbana and Chicago: University Of Illinois Press, 1987)

Recorded by the Library of Congress: 1988

SUSPICIOUS ORIGINS

(St. Paul: New Rivers Press, 1983)

Winner of the Minnesota Voices Project Competition Award;

cited in Pushcart Prize IX under "Outstanding Writers"

"An Age of Marvels and Wonders, a novella," Next Stop Hollywood, Steve Cohen Ed. (New York: St. Martins Press, 2007).

"Mexico, a novella," Next Stop Hollywood, Steve Cohen Ed. (New York: St. Martins Press, 2007).

"Recapitulation" in American Fiction #2, M. White, ed.; Louise Erdrich, judge (New York: Birch Lane, 1991)

"from ‘Mexico, a novella'" in OUR MUTUAL ROOM: Modern Literary Portraits of the Opposite Sex, Ellison & Hill, eds., (Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1987)

"Salt" in INTRO 12 (Norfork: The Associated Writing Programs, 1981)

Selected Presentations

reading from his work:

Kansas City - Riverfront Wrier's House, October 2009.

Salem State College - November 19, 2009.

FIN - Future is Now seminars at SSC.

Personal Interests

Chess, bicycling