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ZZ Packer


(Zuwena Packer)
USA flag (b.1973)

ZZ PACKER is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and was selected for the New Yorker's summer fiction debut issue in 2002. A graduate of Yale she has been a Wallace Stegner-Truman Capote fellow at Stanford University, where she is currently a Jones lecturer. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
 

Awards: NBA (2006)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
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Books containing stories by ZZ Packer
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100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
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Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (2009)
Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer
edited by
Kasia Boddy, Ali Smith and Sarah Wood

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Awards
2007 Granta Best of Young American Novelists
2006 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 : Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Award nominations
2004 PEN/Hemingway Award (nominee) : Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
2004 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : Drinking Coffee Elsewhere


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