Debra Spark
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Debra Spark (born 1962) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and editor. She teaches at Colby College{{Cite web | title=Colby College {{!}} Directory {{!}} Debra A. Spark | url=http://www.colby.edu/profile/daspark/ENGL | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060920211738/http://www.colby.edu/profile/daspark/ENGL | access-date=2024-12-23 | archive-date=2006-09-20}} and at Warren Wilson College.{{Cite web | title=Administration and Staff | url=http://www.warren-wilson.edu/academics/catalog/catalog2.php?name=staff_faculty&id=MFA | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017133051/http://www.warren-wilson.edu:80/academics/catalog/catalog2.php?name=staff_faculty&id=MFA | access-date=2024-12-23 | archive-date=2008-10-17}}
Biography
Debra Spark was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1962. She graduated from Yale University.
Her work has appeared in AGNI,{{Cite web|url = http://web.bu.edu/agni/authors/D/Debra-Spark.html|archive-url = https://archive.today/20120721083759/http://web.bu.edu/agni/authors/D/Debra-Spark.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = July 21, 2012|title = Agni Online|date = 15 March 2022}} Esquire, Narrative,{{Cite web|url=http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/debra-spark|title = Debra Spark | Narrative Magazine|date = 6 June 2008}} Ploughshares,{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1451|title = Read by Author | Ploughshares}} The New York Times, Food and Wine, Yankee, Down East, The Washington Post, Maine Home + Design and The San Francisco Chronicle.
She lives with her husband and son in North Yarmouth, Maine.
Awards
- 1995 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- Bunting Institute fellowship from Radcliffe College
Works
- {{cite book| title=And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing| publisher=Engine Books| year= 2020| isbn= 9781938126468 }}
- {{cite book| title=Unknown Caller| publisher=Louisiana State University Press| year= 2016| isbn= 9780807164693 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Pretty Girl| publisher=Four Way Books| year= 2012| isbn= 9781935536185 }}
- {{cite book| title=Good for the Jews| publisher=University of Michigan Press| year=2009| isbn=978-0-472-11711-6| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780472117116}}
- {{cite book| title=Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing | url=https://archive.org/details/curiousattractio0000spar| url-access=registration | publisher=University of Michigan Press| year= 2005| isbn= 978-0-472-06897-5 }}
- [https://archive.today/20121202102622/http://web.bu.edu/agni/fiction/print/2003/58-spark.html "The Revived Art of the Toy Theatre", AGNI 58. 2003.]
- {{cite book| title=The Ghost of Bridgetown| publisher=Graywolf Press| year=2001| isbn=978-1-55597-352-0| url=https://archive.org/details/ghostofbridgetow00spar}}
- {{cite book| title=Coconuts for the Saint| publisher=HarperCollins Publishers| year=1996| isbn=978-0-380-72630-1| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/coconutsforsaint00spar}}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTkePfrUnOcC&q=Debra+Spark&pg=PA13| chapter=The Trigger: What Gives Rise to a Story?| title=Creating fiction: instruction and insights from teachers of the Associated Writing Programs| editor=Julie Checkoway| publisher=Writer's Digest Books| year= 2001| isbn= 978-1-884910-51-7 }}
- {{cite book| title=The New generation: fiction for our time from America's writing programs| editor=Alan Kaufman| publisher=Anchor Press/Doubleday| year=1987| isbn=978-0-385-23952-3| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/newgenerationfic00kauf}}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9rB6TrFOmtoC&q=Debra+Spark&pg=PA221| chapter=A Short Wedding Story| title=Contemporary Maine fiction: an anthology of short stories| editor=Wesley McNair| publisher=Down East Enterprise Inc| year= 2005| isbn= 978-0-89272-693-6 }}
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9BSblmmqVyIC&q=Debra+Spark&pg=PA2| chapter=Last Things| title=Sorrow's Company: Great Writers on Loss and Grief| editor=DeWitt Henry| editor-link=DeWitt Henry| publisher=Beacon Press| year= 2002| isbn=978-0-8070-6237-1 }}
=Editor=
- {{cite book| title=20 under 30: best stories by America's new young writers| editor=Debra Spark| publisher=Scribner's| year=1986| isbn=978-0-684-18640-5| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/20under30beststo00spar}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.debraspark.com/ "Author's website"]
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=De5YShoP79YC&q=Debra+Spark&pg=PA144| title=Before we get started: a practical memoir of the writer's life| publisher=Random House, Inc.| year= 2005| isbn= 978-0-345-47817-7 |author=Bret Lott }}
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Category:American short story writers
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:Colby College faculty