Skip Horack

Director, Creative Writing Program
Associate Professor


Contact Information

WMS 438

About

Skip Horack specializes in fiction and creative non-fiction. He is the author of the story collection The Southern Cross (2009), winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference 2008 Bakeless Fiction Prize; and the novel The Eden Hunter (2010), a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. His work has also appeared in Oxford American, the Saturday Evening Post, Epoch, The Southern Review, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere. Horack is a former Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, where he was also a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His novel The Other Joseph was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2015.

MFA, University of New Orleans; J.D., Florida State University
Creative Writing

Creative writing, fiction and creative non-fiction

Books

  • The Other Joseph (Ecco/HarperCollins 2015)
  • The Eden Hunter (Counterpoint 2010)
  • The Southern Cross (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt 2009)
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