Background

Greg Hrbek was born on February 26, 1969, in Long Island City, New York, United States.

Education

In 1990, Hrbek received a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1995.

Career

Hrbek started his academic career at the kindergarten where he worked for three years in San Francisco and New York City. Then, he worked as an instructor in English at Vassar College. From 1999-2000, Hrbek taught fiction writing full-time at Butler University. In 2000-2001 Hrbek spent a year as an Albert Hodder fellow at Princeton University. Since 2001, Hrbek has been teaching fiction writing courses as Writer-in-Residence at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Hrbek spent five years working on his debut novel, The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly, including a two-year stint at the Iowa Writers Workshop and a year of full-time writing funded by a James Michener fellowship. Since 1999, Hrbek has written short fiction, with stories appearing in Harper's Magazine, Salmagundi, Idaho Review, Conjunctions, and Black Warrior Review.

Achievements

• Greg Hrbek is known as a prolific author, who was awarded an Iowa Arts Fellowship by the University of Iowa and James A. Michener Fellowship in 1995. His first novel, "The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly," won the James Jones First Novel Award in 1996. His short story "Green World" (Harper's), was a finalist for the 1999 National Magazine Award in Fiction. Also, his work "Bereavement" was a finalist for the 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize, while "The Cliffs at Marpi" was a finalist for the 2006 Bridport Prize. "Sagittarius" was a selection for The Best American Short Stories 2009.
  
  Greg Hrbek's first collection of stories, "Destroy All Monsters," was awarded the 2010 Prairie Schooner Prize in Fiction. Also, Greg's "Not on Fire, but Burning" was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and an NPR Best Book of 2015. His short stories have appeared in Harper's Magazine, Tin House, and The Best American Short Stories anthology.

Works

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  • The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly

    (A richly textured tapestry woven from undying love and de...)

    1999
  • Not on Fire, but Burning

    (Twenty-year-old Skyler saw the incident out her window: S...)

  • Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories

    (Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Gre...)

    2011

Connections

Hrbek is married and has one son and one daughter.

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the worlds most-popular authors.
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