Richard McCann

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Born in 1949, Richard McCann is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, who currently lives in Washington, D.C., where he is a professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University.

He is the author of Mother of Sorrows, a collection of linked stories that novelist Michael Cunningham has described as "almost unbelievably beautiful." Mother of Sorrows received the 2005 John C. Zacharis First Book Award and was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. It was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was named by Amazon as one of the "Top 50 Books of 2005." McCann is also the author of a book of poems, Ghost Letters, which won the 1994 Beatrice Hawley Award and the 1994 Capricorn Poetry Award. With Michael Klein, he is also the editor of Things Shaped in Passing: More 'Poets for Life' Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in The Atlantic," Esquire, Ms., and Tin House, and in numerous anthologies, including The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007, Best American Essays 2000," and The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories. He has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Fine Arts Work Center. McCann has been long associated with the town of Provincetown, MA, where he has lived on and off since the 1970s; he currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Work Center. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the PEN Faulkner Foundation in Washington, D.C.

His Website: www.RichardMcCann.net