Bret Anthony Johnston
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Bret Anthony Johnston is an American author, novelist and essayist. He wrote the novel Remember Me Like This and the story collection, Corpus Christi: Stories. He is also the editor of the non-fiction work, Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. He won the 2017 Sunday Times Short Story Award.
Career
Johnston is a graduate of Miami University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Oxford American, Tin House, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Slate.com, All Things Considered, and in short story anthologies. Johnston is the Director of the Michener Center for Writers at The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches fiction writing.[1][2] He was previously the Director of the Creative Writing program at Harvard University.[3][4]
Johnston is the author of the novels We Burn Daylight, Remember Me Like This and Corpus Christi: Stories.[5]
In 2012, Waiting for Lightning premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was released by Samuel Goldwyn Films.[6]
Awards and honors
- 2006 National Book Foundation named a 5 under 35
- 2017 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award winner for Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses[7][4]
- 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction[8][9]
Works
- Corpus Christi: Stories (2004)
- Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (editor) (2008)
- Waiting for Lightning (screenwriter) (2012)
- Remember Me Like This (2014)
- We Burn Daylight: A Novel (2024)
References
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External links
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- Official Bret Anthony Johnston website
- 5 under 35: Laurie Ann Cedilnik interviews Bret Anthony Johnston & More in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (23.1).
