Skip Horack

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Skip Horack
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Horack at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
BornBruce Maclachlan Horack, Jr. [1]
(1976-05-24) May 24, 1976 (age 49)
New Orleans, Louisiana
OccupationAuthor, professor
NationalityAmerican
GenreFiction
Notable worksThe Southern Cross (2009)
The Eden Hunter (2010)
The Other Joseph (2015)

Bruce Maclachlan "Skip" Horack, Jr. (born May 24, 1976) is an American writer.

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Life and career

He was raised in Covington, Louisiana [2] 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 [3] before committing fully to writing and teaching.

He is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, [4] and is currently an associate professor at Florida State University. [5]

His story collection The Southern Cross, which won the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize, [6] 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" [7] and depict characters that are "vital, funny, and heartbreakingly human." [8]

His novel The Eden Hunter was published in August 2010 by Counterpoint and was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. [9] 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." [10]

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." [11]

Horack's fiction and nonfiction has also appeared in Oxford American , [12] The Southeast Review , New Delta Review , Louisiana Literature , The Southern Review , StoryQuarterly , Epoch , Narrative Magazine , and elsewhere. [13] [14]

References

  1. ↑ "Lawyer Directory – The Florida Bar".
  2. ↑ Antopol, Molly (March 23, 2015). "The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack". The Rumpus. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Skip Horack - the Southeast Review Online". Archived from the original on October 29, 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2009.
  4. ↑ Bennitt, Tom (December 12, 2013). "Grist for the Writing Mill: An Interview with Skip Horack". Fiction Writers Review.
  5. ↑ "Skip Horack | Department of English". english.fsu.edu. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  6. ↑ Archived February 22, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ Susan Larson (August 19, 2009). "Skip Horack makes a fine debut with 'The Southern Cross'". NOLA.com. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Oxford American - the Southern Magazine of Good Writing :: BOOKS: JULY". Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved November 3, 2009.
  9. ↑ "Editors' Choice". The New York Times. October 15, 2010. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  10. ↑ "Book Review - the Eden Hunter - by Skip Horack - the New York Times". The New York Times . Archived from the original on November 18, 2016. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  11. ↑ "The Other Joseph by Skip Horack". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved June 19, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Issue 67, Winter 2009". Oxford American. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Skip Horack". HarperCollins. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
  14. ↑ "Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers' Conference awards 2008 Bakeless Prizes in poetry, fiction and nonfiction | Middlebury News and Announcements". www.middlebury.edu. June 2, 2008. Retrieved July 3, 2025.
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