Professor Perry Glasser coordinates the Professional Writing Program in the English Department at Salem State College.

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Office: MH 228
Telephone: 978-542-7032
email: pglasser@salemstate.edu

Classes, office hours, schedule, syllabuses, Fall 2009

Perry Glasser has published more than 50 stories and memoirs in dozens of literary journals, as well as two collections of short fiction, Suspicious Origins and Singing on the Titanic. His latest collection, Dangerous Places, has been named the winner of the 2008 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize; it will be published in 2009 by BkMk Press at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (interview). His fiction has appeared in several anthologies including Next Stop Hollywood and Our Mutual Room. Among other awards, he is a 3-time-winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize and two-time winner of the Boston Fiction Festival Competition. His work has been recorded by the Library of Congress and read on National Public Radio. He received the Sarah Russo Prize for Exile Literature in 2005; he has been a fellow at Ucross, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In 2008, Perry was a Finalist for the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize for the novella. In June, 2009, his memoir of being a single parent, “Iowa Black Dirt,” was awarded First Prize by The Good Men Foundation.

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