Steven Schwartz

Steven Schwartz grew up in Chester, Pennsylvania, and has lived in Colorado for the past 35 years. He is the author of four collections of stories, To Leningrad in Winter, Lives of the Fathers, Little Raw Souls, and Madagascar: New and Selected Stories, and the novels Therapy and A Good Doctor’s Son. His fiction has received the Nelson Algren Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, the Ploughshares Cohen Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Colorado Book Award for the Novel and for Literary Fiction, and two O. Henry Prize Story Awards. His nonfiction has been published in the Gettysburg Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Image, and has received the Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction from the Southern Review. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State where he taught in the MFA Creative Writing Program for 30 years and now serves as fiction editor for Colorado Review. His latest book is The Tenderest of Strings, a novel.