Alexi Zentner

{{Infobox writer

|name = Alexi Zentner

|image = Alexi Zentner.jpg

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|08|29}}

|birth_place = Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

|occupation = Short story writer, novelist

|education = Grinnell College (BA)
Cornell University (MFA)

}}

Alexi Zentner (born August 29, 1973 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian-American short story writer, and novelist.

Life

He graduated from Grinnell College with a BA{{Cite web|url=https://www.binghamton.edu/english/faculty/profile.html?id=azentner|title = Alexi Zentner - Our Faculty - English, General Literature and Rhetoric | Binghamton University}} and Cornell University with an MFA.{{Cite web|url=http://cornellsun.com/section/daze/content/2008/10/02/wooooord-cu-mfas|title = Wooooord! C.U. MFAs|date = 2 October 2008}}

He taught at Cornell University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/_lib/pdf/crse_fa08_undr.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-05-17 |archive-date=2010-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611152750/http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/_lib/pdf/crse_fa08_undr.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://cornellsun.com/section/daze/content/2008/10/02/wooooord-cu-mfas|title = Wooooord! C.U. MFAs|date = 2 October 2008}}{{Cite web|url=http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/FALL09/cover4.html|title = Ezra Magazine Cover story}} He's now on the faculty at Binghamton University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.binghamton.edu/english/faculty/profile.html?id=azentner|title = Alexi Zentner - Our Faculty - English, General Literature and Rhetoric | Binghamton University}}

His fiction has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/alexi-zentner/|title=Alexi Zentner|website=The Atlantic}} Narrative Magazine (where it was awarded the 2008 Narrative Prize).{{cite news|title=Author's Web Site|url=http://www.alexizentner.com|date=2009-10-03|accessdate=2009-10-03}}

He lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and two children.

Awards

His short story "Touch," originally published in Tin House is featured in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008 where it was chosen as a jury favorite by author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.{{cite news|title=Author Spotlight|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/ohenry/spotlight/zentner.html|date=2009-10-03|accessdate=2009-10-03}} Two of Alexi's short stories were also selected for "special mention" in the 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology.

"Trapline" was awarded the 2008 Narrative Prize.

His debut novel Touch was a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-giller-prize/dewitt-edugyan-ondaatje-and-vanderhaege-among-17-on-giller-long-list/article2154599/ "DeWitt, Edugyan, Ondaatje and Vanderhaege among 17 on Giller long list"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420132901/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-giller-prize/dewitt-edugyan-ondaatje-and-vanderhaege-among-17-on-giller-long-list/article2154599/ |date=2012-04-20 }}. The Globe and Mail, September 6, 2011. and shortlisted for the Governor General Award for English-language fiction.{{cite web | url=https://ggbooks.ca/past-winners-and-finalists | title=Past GGBooks winners and finalists }}

Works

=Novels=

[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602720/copperhead-by-alexi-zentner/ Copperhead] (novel) (Penguin Random House, 2019){{cite web| url = https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602720/copperhead-by-alexi-zentner/9781984877284/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190624171346/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602720/copperhead-by-alexi-zentner/9781984877284/| archive-date = 2019-06-24| title = Copperhead by Alexi Zentner {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books}}
[https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393351071 The Lobster Kings] (W. W. Norton & Company, 2014){{Cite book|isbn = 978-0393089578|title = The Lobster Kings: A Novel|last1 = Zentner|first1 = Alexi|date = 27 May 2014}}
[https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393342390 Touch] (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011){{Cite book|isbn = 978-0393079876|title = Touch: A Novel|last1 = Zentner|first1 = Alexi|date = 4 April 2011}}

=Short fiction=

"Touch", 2008
[http://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/fall-2008/trapline "Trapline", Narrative Magazine, Fall 2008]
[https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200908/zentner-furlough "Furlough", The Atlantic, August 2009]

=Anthologies=

{{cite book| title=The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008| editor=Laura Furman| publisher= Anchor | date=May 6, 2008| isbn= 978-0-307-28034-3 | url=https://archive.org/details/ohenryprizestori00laur_0| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/ohenryprizestori00laur_0/page/319 319]| quote=Alexi Zentner.| chapter=Touch }}
{{cite book| title=Pushcart Prize XXXII| editor=Bill Henderson| publisher=Pushcart Press| date=December 10, 2007| isbn=978-1-888889-46-8| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/pushcartprizexxx00push}}

Zentner also writes mysteries and horror novels under the pen name [https://www.ezekielboone.com/ Ezekiel Boone].{{Cite web|url=https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/839/harpurs-horror-master|title=Meet Harpur's horror master - Binghamton News}}