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ZZ Packer
ZZ Packer at the 2009 Texas Book Festival.
Born	Zuwena Packer (1973-01-12) January 12, 1973 (age 51) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Period	2000-present

Zuwena "ZZ" Packer (born January 12, 1973) is an American writer, primarily of works of short fiction.

Early life and education

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Packer grew up in Atlanta, Georgia,^[1]^[2] and Louisville, Kentucky. "ZZ" was a childhood nickname; her given name is Zuwena.^[3] Her writing was published in the magazine Seventeen at the age of 19.^[3] Packer is a 1990 graduate of Seneca High School in Louisville, Kentucky.^[4]

Packer attended Yale University, receiving her BA in 1994. Her graduate work included an MA at Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa in 1999, where she was mentored by James Alan McPherson.^[5]

Career

Her work was first published in the Debut Fiction issue of The New Yorker in 2000. Her short story in the issue became the title story in her collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. As Publishers Weekly put it, "this debut short story collection is getting the highest of accolades from the New York Times, Harper's, the New Yorker and most every other branch of the literary criticism tree."^[6]

"ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is taught in creative writing courses nationwide and with good reason. This short story collection is brimming with characters who are striving to find themselves, to understand themselves, and to survive", commented novelist Colson Whitehead.^[7]

In an interview when Packer was a Radcliffe Fellow, in 2015, she reported that she working on a novel set during Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War.^[8] The novel-in-progress, The Thousands, "chronicles the lives of black, white, and Native American families shortly after the Civil War, through Reconstruction and the Indian Campaigns in the Southwest".^[9] She has been regularly contributing to The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker.

Works

Books


Year	Title
2003	Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Anthologies


Year	Title
2000	Best American Short Stories 2000^[10]
2003	Best American Short Stories 2003^[11]
2008	New Stories from the South: The Year's Best^[12]
2015	100 Years of the Best American Short Stories^[13]

Other works


Year	Title	Publication
1999	Brownies	Harper's Magazine^[14]
2000	Drinking Coffee Elsewhere	The New Yorker^[15]
2002	The Ant of the Self	The New Yorker^[16]
2002	Every Tongue Shall Confess	Ploughshares^[17]
2002	The Stranger	The Washington Post Magazine^[18]
2004	Derby Pie	The New York Times Magazine^[19]
2004	An Interview with John Kerry	The Believer Magazine^[20]
2004	I Was Black, and I Told Her	O, The Oprah Magazine^[21]
2004	Losing My Religion	Salon^[22]
2005	'Dr. King's Refrigerator': Thinking Outside the Icebox	The New York Times Magazine^[23]
2005	Sorry, Not Buying	The American Prospect^[24]
2007	Buffalo Soldiers	Granta^[25]
2007	Pita Delicious	The Washington Post Magazine^[26]
2007	Gideon	The Guardian^[27]
2007	The Finishing Party: ZZ Packer's Writing Group	O, The Oprah Magazine^[28]
2008	I want Obama to be daily proof that race is no barrier	The Guardian
2008	Saved to ‘Drafts’	Granta^[29]
2008	Working the Reunion	The New York Times Magazine^[30]
2009	No Polenta, No Cry	The New York Times Magazine^[31]
2009	Remembering Updike: ZZ Packer	The New Yorker^[32]
2009	A Finished Revolution?	The Oxford American^[33]
2009	Confessions of a Shopaholic's Wife	Glamour^[34]
2010	Dayward	The New Yorker^[35]
2011	Ferraro's Barack Problem	HuffPost^[36]
2012	Keeping it Weird in Austin, Texas	Smithsonian^[37]
2013	It's Beyoncé's World and We're Just Living In It	Newsweek^[38]
2017	Trump Talk: Your Translation Guide	The New Yorker^[39]
2017	What to Expect When You're Expecting Fascism	The New Yorker^[40]
2018	News of an ‘Outrage’ Used to Mean Something Very, Very Different	The New York Times Magazine^[41]
2018	When Is ‘Civility’ a Duty, and When Is It a Trap?	The New York Times Magazine^[42]
2019	July 30, 1866	The New York Times Magazine^[43]
2019	Truth And Fiction	Port Magazine^[44]
2020	Preacher of the New Antiracist Gospel	GQ^[45]
2020	Sarah Cooper Doesn't Mimic Trump. She Exposes Him.	The New York Times Magazine^[46]
2020	The Empty Facts of the Breonna Taylor Decision	The New Yorker^[47]

Awards


Year	Title	Notes
1997	Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award	Winner
1999	Whiting Award^[48]	Winner
1999	Bellingham Review Award	Winner
2003	Commonwealth Club of California Award^[49]	Winner
2004	PEN/Faulkner Award	Finalist
2004	PEN/Hemingway Award	Finalist
2004	Alex Award^[50]	Winner

Other honors


Year	Title
2006	5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation^[51]
2007	America's Best Young Novelists by Granta^[52]
2007	Smithsonian Magazine's Young Innovators^[53]
2010	The New Yorker magazine's "20 under 40" luminary fiction writers.^[54]

Teaching

Year	Title
2007	Writer-in-Residence at the Tulane University English Department Creative Writing Program^[55]
2008	Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at San Jose State University.^[56]
2008	Creative Writing Faculty at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin^[57]
2009	Writer-in-Residence at Vassar College^[58]
2010	Visiting Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA Program of Creative Writing at Texas State University
2011	Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa^[59]
2012	Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing at University of Houston^[60]
2013	Creative Writing Assistant Professor at SFSU^[61]
2015	Creative Writing Visiting Faculty at MIT^[62]
2020	Creative Writing Faculty at Harvard University
2020	Creative Writing MFA Program at CUNY's Hunter College^[63]
2023	Assistant Professor in the English Department at Vanderbilt University^[64]

Fellowships

Year	Title
1999	Stegner Fellowship^[65]
2002	MacDowell Fellowship^[66]
2005	National Endowment for the Arts Grant
2005	Guggenheim Fellowship
2005	Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Fellowship^[67]
2007	San Francisco Writers' Grotto Fellowship^[68]
2010	Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University^[69]
2010	MacDowell Fellowship^[66]
2013	Dobie Paisano Fellowship^[1]
2014	Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University^[70]
2016	MacDowell Fellowship^[66]
2018	W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Fellowship at Harvard University^[71]
2018	Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Fellowship^[67]
2019	Montalvo Arts Center Lucas Artists Fellowship^[67]
2020	Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Fellowship at Brown University.^[72]

References

^ ^a ^b "Previous Fellows | Dobie Paisano Fellowship | The University of Texas at Austin". dobiepaisano.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "ZZ Packer reading kicks off renowned authors series | Emory University | Atlanta GA". news.emory.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
^ ^a ^b Birnbaum, Robert (2003-04-29). "ZZ Packer - Identity Theory". www.identitytheory.com. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
^ Hart, James D.; Martin, Wendy; Hinrichs, Danielle, eds. (2020). The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780191872112.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-187211-2.
^ "Member Bonus: ZZ Packer on the Life and Work of James Alan McPherson". Ursa Story Company. 2023-04-05. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
^ "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere", Barnes & Noble.
^ "10 Books Recommended by Pulitzer Prize Winners". www.bookbub.com.
^ Walsh, Colleen (2015-03-20). "Plotting Her Return". The Harvard Gazette.
^ "Video: ZZ Packer". Poets & Writers. 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2024-07-26.
^ The Best American Short Stories 2000
^ Best American Short Stories 2003
^ David Austin Gura, "ZZ Packer's edition of Southern stories straddles old and new Dixie", Indy Week. August 20, 2008.
^ "Review: '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon". Los Angeles Times. 2015-10-09. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. (1999-11-01). "[Fiction] Brownies, By ZZ Packer". Harper's Magazine. Vol. November 1999. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. "The Ant of the Self". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Fall 2002 | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. (2002-07-14). "The Stranger". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Derby Pie (Published 2004)". www.nytimes.com. 2004-10-17. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "An Interview with John Kerry". Believer Magazine. 2004-10-01. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "O Magazine".
^ "Losing my religion". Salon. 2004-11-21. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "'Dr. King's Refrigerator': Thinking Outside the Icebox (Published 2005)". www.nytimes.com. 2005-03-06. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. (2005-11-20). "Sorry, Not Buying". The American Prospect. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Buffalo Soldiers". Granta. 2007-04-16. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Washington post". The Washington Post.
^ Packer, Z. Z. (2007-10-06). "Short story: Gideon by ZZ Packer". The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "O Magazine".
^ "Saved to 'Drafts'". Granta. 2008-11-04. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Working the Reunion (Published 2008)". www.nytimes.com. 2008-06-01. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "No Polenta, No Cry (Published 2009)". www.nytimes.com. 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. "Remembering Updike: ZZ Packer". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Issue 64, Spring 2009". www.oxfordamerican.org. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Real Women's Money Dramas". Glamour. July 2009. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. "Dayward". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Andrew Foster Altschul (2008-03-15). "ZZ Packer Takes on Geraldine Ferraro". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Keeping it Weird in Austin, Texas". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, ZZ (2013-02-15). "It's Beyoncé's World and We're Just Living In It". Newsweek. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. "Trump Talk: Your Translation Guide". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. "What to Expect When You're Expecting Fascism". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "News of an 'Outrage' Used to Mean Something Very, Very Different (Published 2018)". www.nytimes.com. 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "When Is 'Civility' a Duty, and When Is It a Trap? (Published 2018)". www.nytimes.com. 2018-11-28. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Ward, Jesmyn; Jenkins, Barry; Dove, Rita (2019-08-14). "A New Literary Timeline of African-American History (Published 2019)". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Port Magazine, Truth and Fiction". 8 May 2019.
^ Packer, Z. Z. (20 August 2020). "What Happens to a Professor When His Theory of Anti-Racism Goes Mainstream?". GQ. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Sarah Cooper Doesn't Mimic Trump. She Exposes Him". www.nytimes.com. 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ Packer, Z. Z. "The Empty Facts of the Breonna Taylor Decision". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "ZZ Packer". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Commonwealth Club awards" (PDF).
^ "2004 Alex Awards". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). 2007-07-30. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "5 Under 35 Archives". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ http://www.granta.com/Magazine/97October 2007
^ Tessa Decarlo, "Comedienne of Manners", Smithsonian magazine, October 2007.
^ Bosman, Julie (2010-06-02). "20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others". The New York Times.
^ "Francine Prose Debuts New Story During Tulane Visit", Creative Writing at Tulane, February 25, 2009.
^ "Visiting Writers", San Jose State University.
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^ "- English Department - Vassar College". english.vassar.edu.
^ "People | Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa". writersworkshop.uiowa.edu.
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^ "MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing | "fiction"".
^ "Ten New Faculty Appointments Join Hunter | Hunter College". hunter.cuny.edu. 15 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "Bio".
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^ ^a ^b ^c "ZZ Packer - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Montalvo Arts Center | ZZ Packer". montalvoarts.org. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
^ "News" Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Grotto.
^ ZZ Packer - 2010 Hodder Fellow, Lewis Center, Princeton.
^ "ZZ Packer". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. April 22, 2014.
^ "Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows". hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu.
^ "Senior Fellows | Watson Institute". Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

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