Lysley Tenorio

Lysley A. Tenorio (born Olongapo City, Philippines) is a Filipino-American short story writer.

Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and the Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Born in the Philippines, he lives in San Francisco, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.

He is currently working on a novel.

Awards

2000 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University
2002 The Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction
2006 Pushcart Prize for "The Brothers"
2006 NEA Fellowship[http://www.arts.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=06_22 National Endowment For The Arts: Writers' Corner - Lysley Tenorio]
2008 Whiting Award
2013 Edmund White Award[http://gaycitynews.com/going-for-the-silver/ "Going for the Silver"]. Gay City News, May 8, 2013.
2014 The Paris Review Writer-In-Residence at The Standard Hotel[https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304017204579226372993464090 "Writer's NYC Retreat"]. The Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2013.
2015 The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
2020 [https://www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/fellows James Merrill House] Fellowship
2020 New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research in the US{{Cite web |title=The New American Voices Award |url=https://iir.gmu.edu/about/award |access-date=2024-11-07 |website=Institute for Immigration Research |language=en}}

{{Cite book |last=Tenorio |first=Lysley |title=The Son of Good Fortune |publisher=Ecco |year=2020 |isbn=9780062059574 |edition=hardcover 1st |author-mask=2}}

{{Cite book |last=Tenorio |first=Lysley |title=The View from Culion: Stories |publisher=University of Oregon |year=1998 |author-mask=2}} (Thesis/Dissertation manuscript)
{{Cite book |last=Tenorio |first=Lysley |title=Monstress |title-link=Monstress (short story collection) |publisher=Ecco |year=2012 |isbn=9780062059567 |author-mask=2}}

{{cite journal |first=Lysley |last=Tenorio |author-mask=2 |title=Help |journal=Ploughshares |date=Fall 2000 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029190748/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=4922}}
{{cite journal |first=Lysley |last=Tenorio |author-mask=2 |title=Monstress |journal=The Atlantic |date=Jun 2003 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2003/06/tenorio.htm}}
{{cite journal |first=Lysley |last=Tenorio |author-mask=2 |title=Felix Starro |journal=Zoetrope: All-Story |date=Summer 2009 |url=http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=421}}
{{cite journal |first=Lysley |last=Tenorio |author-mask=2 |title=L'Amour, CA |journal=The Atlantic |date=Aug 2011 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/08/l-amour-ca/308574/}}

{{cite book |title=Best New American Voices 2001 |editor1=Charles Baxter |editor2=John Kulka |editor3=Natalie Danford |publisher=Harcourt |year=2001 |isbn=9780156010658 |url=https://archive.org/details/bestnewamericanv00sand |url-access=registration}}
{{cite book |title=The Best American Short Stories |editor1=Barbara Kingsolver |editor2=Katrina Kenison |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |year=2001 |isbn=9780395926888 |url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericansho000king |url-access=registration}}
{{cite book |title=Manila Noir |editor=Jessica Hagedorn |publisher=Akashic Books |year=2013 |isbn=9781617751608}}

{{Official website|http://www.lysleytenorio.com}}
[http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/lysley-tenorio#/ Profile at The Whiting Foundation]
[http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=7742 "Lysley Tenorio", KQED]
"interview with Lysley Tenorio", San Francisco Examiner, July 29, 2009, Alegria Garcia