Skip Horack

Skip Horack
Horack at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Horack at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
BornBruce Maclachlan Horack, Jr.[1]
(1976-05-24) May 24, 1976 (age 48)
New Orleans, Louisiana
OccupationAuthor, professor
NationalityAmerican
GenreFiction
Notable worksThe Southern Cross (2009)
The Eden Hunter (2010)
The Other Joseph (2015)

Bruce Maclachlan "Skip" Horack, Jr. (born May 24, 1976) is an American writer.

Life and career

He was raised in Covington, Louisiana where he attended St. Paul's School.

Horack holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. from Florida State University. He worked as a lawyer for five years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana[2] before committing fully to writing and teaching.

He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and is currently an associate professor at Florida State University.

His story collection The Southern Cross, which won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize,[3] was published in 2009 by Mariner Books. The contest was judged by Antonya Nelson, who called the story collection "a knockout winner." Hailed as a "storyteller of uncommon talent", Horack's stories are "artfully evoked and deeply felt"[4] and depict characters that are "vital, funny, and heartbreakingly human".[5]

His novel The Eden Hunter was published in August 2010 by Counterpoint and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Reviewer Sven Birkerts noted: "Horack, the author of a well-received story collection, The Southern Cross, writes luminous, clean prose... He has a poet’s tuned attentiveness, but never uses his sentences to preen."[6]

Horack's fiction and nonfiction has also appeared in Oxford American, The Southeast Review, New Delta Review, Louisiana Literature, The Southern Review, StoryQuarterly, Epoch, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. His novel The Other Joseph was published by Ecco Press in March 2015.

References

  1. ^ "Lawyer Directory – The Florida Bar".
  2. ^ "Skip Horack - the Southeast Review Online". Archived from the original on October 29, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
  3. ^ Archived February 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine[dead link‍]
  4. ^ Susan Larson (August 19, 2009). "Skip Horack makes a fine debut with 'The Southern Cross'". NOLA.com. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
  5. ^ "Oxford American - the Southern Magazine of Good Writing :: BOOKS: JULY". Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2009.
  6. ^ "Book Review - the Eden Hunter - by Skip Horack - the New York Times". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 18, 2016. Retrieved February 25, 2017.