About Kirk Nesset
Kirk Nesset is author of two books of stories, Mr. Agreeable and Paradise Road, as well as a nonfiction study, The Stories of Raymond Carver, a book of poems, Saint X (forthcoming), and a book of translations, Alphabet of the World: Selected Works of Eugenio Montejo (also forthcoming). He was awarded the Drue Heinz literature prize in 2007 and has received a Pushcart Prize and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His stories, poems, translations and essays have appeared in hundreds of journals, including The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Agni, The Sun and Prairie Schooner, among others. His short short fictions have been widely anthologized, appearing in W. W. Norton's NEW SUDDEN FICTION, FLASH FICTION FORWARD, SUDDEN FICTION LATINO, and elsewhere.
Nesset grew up in northern California, close to the coast, and studied at UC Santa Cruz and UC Santa Barbara, as well as abroad. He has worked as a dishwasher, a tree planter, a telemarketer, a car parker, a caterer, a writing consultant and a salesman selling wood stoves. Currently he is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. He also plays guitar and sings in a rock group, and DJs on FM radio, shows featuring gothic, darkwave, EBM and electro-industrial music. He is fond of mountain biking, kayaking and blading, and lives with three cats and a mini-Pomeranian dog.
News
Kirk Nesset's poem "How Deep is the River" has been published by Agni.
His translation of Luisa Valenzuelar's "Vignettes from the City" and "Dear Cat of Our Days" have been accepted by Potomac Review.
His short story "Family" has been accepted by Drunken Boat.
In these last weeks poems have been accepted by The Gettysburg Review, Potomac Review, Hotel Amerika, Boulevard, and St. Anne's Review.
His short story "Honey" has been published by New England Review.
He will serve as Fiction Writer in Residence at the Chautauqua Institute (in Chautauqua, NY) from July 3 - 9, 2010.
He will serve as Poet in Residence at the Black Forest Writing Seminars (in Freiburg, Germany) from July 26 - August 6, 2010.
Nesset's short story "Wishing Well" has been accepted by Story Quarterly.
He read and taught lately at Glendale Community College, Lock Haven University, UNC Charlotte, High Point University, Towson University, Salisbury University, Edinboro University, Montgom- ery College, Elmira College, SUNY Geneseo, and at AWP in Denver.
His translation of Juan Jose Saer's "Hotel Room" has been accepted by Fiction.
MR. AGREEABLE, the book of flash fictions, has arrived! (Mammoth Books, 2009).
He served as Fiction Writer in Residence at Ligonier Valley Writer's Conference, Ligonier, PA, July 18, 2009.
His story, "Still Life With Candles and Spanish Guitar," originally published in The Sun, then in Paradise Road, was reprinted in The Mysterious Life of the Heart, Sy Safransky, editor, Sun Publishing, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009.
