Skip Horack
{{short description|American writer (born 1976)}}
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| birth_name = Bruce Maclachlan Horack, Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.floridabar.org/directories/find-mbr/|title=Lawyer Directory – The Florida Bar}}
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| birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana
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| occupation = Author, professor
| nationality = American
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| notableworks = The Southern Cross (2009)
The Eden Hunter (2010)
The Other Joseph (2015)
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Bruce Maclachlan "Skip" Horack, Jr. (born May 24, 1976) is an American writer.
Life and career
He was raised in Covington, Louisiana where he attended St. Paul's School.
Horack holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. from Florida State University. He worked as a lawyer for five years in Baton Rouge, Louisiana{{cite web |url=http://southeastreview.org/2009/09/skip-horack.html |title=Skip Horack - the Southeast Review Online |access-date=2009-11-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029090943/http://southeastreview.org/2009/09/skip-horack.html |archive-date=2009-10-29 }} before committing fully to writing and teaching.
He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and is currently an associate professor at Florida State University.
His story collection The Southern Cross, which won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize,{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222002939/http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/bakeless/2008_Winners.htm |date=February 22, 2012}} was published in 2009 by Mariner Books. The contest was judged by Antonya Nelson, who called the story collection "a knockout winner." Hailed as a "storyteller of uncommon talent", Horack's stories are "artfully evoked and deeply felt"{{cite web|author=Susan Larson |url=http://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2009/08/skip_horack_makes_a_fine_debut.html |title=Skip Horack makes a fine debut with 'The Southern Cross' |website=NOLA.com |date=2009-08-19 |accessdate=2016-11-18}} and depict characters that are "vital, funny, and heartbreakingly human".{{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2009/jul/08/editors-picks-books/ |title=Oxford American - the Southern Magazine of Good Writing :: BOOKS: JULY |access-date=2009-11-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028164844/http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2009/jul/08/editors-picks-books/ |archive-date=2009-10-28 }}
His novel The Eden Hunter was published in August 2010 by Counterpoint and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Reviewer Sven Birkerts noted: "Horack, the author of a well-received story collection, The Southern Cross, writes luminous, clean prose... He has a poet’s tuned attentiveness, but never uses his sentences to preen."{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/books/review/Birkerts-t.html/ |title=Book Review - the Eden Hunter - by Skip Horack - the New York Times |website=The New York Times |access-date=2017-02-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224712/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/books/review/Birkerts-t.html |archive-date=2016-11-18 }}
His novel The Other Joseph was published in March 2015 by Ecco. Publishers Weekly called it an "exciting, well-plotted sophomore novel" that "delivers satisfying plot turns."{{Cite web |title=The Other Joseph by Skip Horack |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062300850 |access-date=2025-06-19 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}
Horack's fiction and nonfiction has also appeared in Oxford American, The Southeast Review, New Delta Review, Louisiana Literature, The Southern Review, StoryQuarterly, Epoch, Narrative Magazine, and elsewhere.
References
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External links
- [http://www.skiphorack.com/home Official website]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/books/review/Birkerts-t.html New York Times Book Review review] of The Eden Hunter
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Category:American short story writers
Category:Writers from Louisiana
Category:Florida State University College of Law alumni
Category:Stanford University faculty