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ZZ Packer

(Zuwena Packer)

(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

Collections

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003)

Series contributed to

New Stories from the South
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2008 (2008)

Books containing stories by ZZ Packer

100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor

Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar (2011)
Stories of Work
edited by
Richard Ford

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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