ZZ Packer explained
ZZ Packer |
Birth Name: | Zuwena Packer |
Birth Date: | January 12, 1973 |
Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Period: | 2000-present |
Zuwena "ZZ" Packer (born January 12, 1973) is an American writer, primarily of works of short fiction.
Early life and education
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Packer grew up in Atlanta, Georgia,[1] and Louisville, Kentucky. "ZZ" was a childhood nickname; her given name is Zuwena.[2] Her writing was published in the magazine Seventeen at the age of 19. Packer is a 1990 graduate of Seneca High School in Louisville, Kentucky.[3]
Packer attended Yale University, receiving her BA in 1994. Her graduate work included an MA at Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa in 1999, where she was mentored by James Alan McPherson.[4]
Career
Her work was first published in the Debut Fiction issue of The New Yorker in 2000. Her short story in the issue became the title story in her collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. As Publishers Weekly put it, "this debut short story collection is getting the highest of accolades from the New York Times, Harper's, the New Yorker and most every other branch of the literary criticism tree."[5]
"ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is taught in creative writing courses nationwide and with good reason. This short story collection is brimming with characters who are striving to find themselves, to understand themselves, and to survive", commented novelist Colson Whitehead.[6]
In an interview when Packer was a Radcliffe Fellow, in 2015, she reported that she working on a novel set during Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War.[7] The novel-in-progress, The Thousands, "chronicles the lives of black, white, and Native American families shortly after the Civil War, through Reconstruction and the Indian Campaigns in the Southwest".[8] She has been regularly contributing to The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker.
Works
Books
Anthologies
Other works
!Year!Title!Publication1999 | Brownies | Harper's Magazine[13] |
2000 | Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | The New Yorker[14] |
2002 | The Ant of the Self | The New Yorker[15] |
2002 | Every Tongue Shall Confess | Ploughshares[16] |
2002 | The Stranger | The Washington Post Magazine[17] |
2004 | Derby Pie | The New York Times Magazine[18] |
2004 | An Interview with John Kerry | The Believer Magazine[19] |
2004 | I Was Black, and I Told Her | O, The Oprah Magazine[20] |
2004 | Losing My Religion | Salon[21] |
2005 | 'Dr. King's Refrigerator': Thinking Outside the Icebox | The New York Times Magazine[22] |
2005 | Sorry, Not Buying | The American Prospect[23] |
2007 | Buffalo Soldiers | Granta[24] |
2007 | Pita Delicious | The Washington Post Magazine[25] |
2007 | Gideon | The Guardian[26] |
2007 | The Finishing Party: ZZ Packer's Writing Group | O, The Oprah Magazine[27] |
2008 | I want Obama to be daily proof that race is no barrier | The Guardian |
2008 | Saved to ‘Drafts’ | Granta[28] |
2008 | Working the Reunion | The New York Times Magazine[29] |
2009 | No Polenta, No Cry | The New York Times Magazine[30] |
2009 | Remembering Updike: ZZ Packer | The New Yorker[31] |
2009 | A Finished Revolution? | The Oxford American[32] |
2009 | Confessions of a Shopaholic's Wife | Glamour[33] |
2010 | Dayward | The New Yorker[34] |
2011 | Ferraro's Barack Problem | HuffPost[35] |
2012 | Keeping it Weird in Austin, Texas | Smithsonian[36] |
2013 | It's Beyoncé's World and We're Just Living In It | Newsweek[37] |
2017 | Trump Talk: Your Translation Guide | The New Yorker[38] |
2017 | What to Expect When You're Expecting Fascism | The New Yorker[39] |
2018 | News of an ‘Outrage’ Used to Mean Something Very, Very Different | The New York Times Magazine[40] |
2018 | When Is ‘Civility’ a Duty, and When Is It a Trap? | The New York Times Magazine[41] |
2019 | July 30, 1866 | The New York Times Magazine[42] |
2019 | Truth And Fiction | Port Magazine[43] |
2020 | Preacher of the New Antiracist Gospel | GQ[44] |
2020 | Sarah Cooper Doesn't Mimic Trump. She Exposes Him. | The New York Times Magazine[45] |
2020 | The Empty Facts of the Breonna Taylor Decision | The New Yorker[46] | |
Awards
Other honors
Teaching
Fellowships
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: ZZ Packer reading kicks off renowned authors series Emory University Atlanta GA . 2024-05-18 . news.emory.edu . en.
- Web site: Birnbaum . Robert . 2003-04-29 . ZZ Packer - Identity Theory . 2024-07-26 . www.identitytheory.com . en-US.
- Book: The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature . 2020 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-187211-2 . Hart . James D. . 2 . en . 10.1093/acref/9780191872112.001.0001 . Martin . Wendy . Hinrichs . Danielle.
- Web site: 2023-04-05 . Member Bonus: ZZ Packer on the Life and Work of James Alan McPherson . 2024-07-26 . Ursa Story Company . en-US.
- http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&ean=9781573223782&displayonly=REV#REV "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere"
- Web site: 10 Books Recommended by Pulitzer Prize Winners. www.bookbub.com.
- News: Walsh . Colleen . 2015-03-20 . Plotting Her Return . The Harvard Gazette.
- Web site: 2016-10-03 . Video: ZZ Packer . 2024-07-26 . Poets & Writers . en.
- [The Best American Short Stories 2000]
- [Best American Short Stories 2003]
- David Austin Gura, "ZZ Packer's edition of Southern stories straddles old and new Dixie", Indy Week. August 20, 2008.
- Web site: 2015-10-09. Review: '100 Years of Best American Short Stories' is vital yet flawed for loading the canon. 2020-12-06. Los Angeles Times. en-US.
- 1999-11-01. [Fiction] Brownies, By ZZ Packer]. 2020-12-06. Harper's Magazine. November 1999. en. Packer. Z. Z..
- Packer. Z. Z.. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. 2020-12-06. The New Yorker. en-us.
- Packer. Z. Z.. The Ant of the Self. 2020-12-06. The New Yorker. en-us.
- Web site: Fall 2002 Ploughshares. 2020-12-06. www.pshares.org.
- News: Packer. Z. Z.. 2002-07-14. The Stranger. en-US. Washington Post. 2020-12-06. 0190-8286.
- Web site: 2004-10-17. Derby Pie (Published 2004). 2020-12-06. www.nytimes.com. en.
- Web site: 2004-10-01. An Interview with John Kerry. 2020-12-06. Believer Magazine. en-US.
- Web site: O Magazine.
- Web site: 2004-11-21. Losing my religion. 2020-12-06. Salon. en.
- Web site: 2005-03-06. 'Dr. King's Refrigerator': Thinking Outside the Icebox (Published 2005). 2020-12-06. www.nytimes.com. en.
- Web site: Packer. Z. Z.. 2005-11-20. Sorry, Not Buying. 2020-12-06. The American Prospect. en-us.
- Web site: 2007-04-16. Buffalo Soldiers. 2020-12-06. Granta. en-US.
- News: Washington post. The Washington Post.
- Web site: Packer. Z. Z.. 2007-10-06. Short story: Gideon by ZZ Packer. 2020-12-06. The Guardian. en.
- Web site: O Magazine.
- Web site: 2008-11-04. Saved to 'Drafts'. 2020-12-06. Granta. en-US.
- Web site: 2008-06-01. Working the Reunion (Published 2008). 2020-12-06. www.nytimes.com. en.
- Web site: 2009-10-08. No Polenta, No Cry (Published 2009). 2020-12-06. www.nytimes.com. en.
- Packer. Z. Z.. Remembering Updike: ZZ Packer. 2020-12-06. The New Yorker. en-us.
- Web site: Issue 64, Spring 2009. 2020-12-06. www.oxfordamerican.org. en-gb.
- Web site: Real Women's Money Dramas. 2020-12-06. Glamour. July 2009 . en-us.
- Packer. Z. Z.. Dayward. 2020-12-06. The New Yorker. en-us.
- Web site: Andrew Foster Altschul. 2008-03-15. ZZ Packer Takes on Geraldine Ferraro. 2020-12-06. HuffPost. en.
- Web site: Keeping it Weird in Austin, Texas. 2020-12-06. Smithsonian Magazine. en.
- Web site: ZZ. Packer. 2013-02-15. It's Beyoncé's World and We're Just Living In It. 2020-12-06. Newsweek. en.
- Packer. Z. Z.. Trump Talk: Your Translation Guide. 2020-12-06. The New Yorker. en-us.
- Packer. Z. Z.. What to Expect When You're Expecting Fascism. 2020-12-06. The New Yorker. en-us.
- Web site: 2018-05-23. News of an 'Outrage' Used to Mean Something Very, Very Different (Published 2018). 2020-12-06. www.nytimes.com. en.
- Web site: 2018-11-28. When Is 'Civility' a Duty, and When Is It a Trap? (Published 2018). 2020-12-06. www.nytimes.com. en.
- Web site: Ward. Jesmyn. Jenkins. Barry. Dove. Rita. 2019-08-14. A New Literary Timeline of African-American History (Published 2019). 2020-12-06. www.nytimes.com. en.
- Web site: 8 May 2019. Port Magazine, Truth and Fiction.
- Web site: Packer. Z. Z.. What Happens to a Professor When His Theory of Anti-Racism Goes Mainstream?. 2020-12-06. GQ. 20 August 2020 . en-us.
- Web site: 2020-06-25. Sarah Cooper Doesn't Mimic Trump. She Exposes Him.. 2020-12-06. www.nytimes.com. en.
- Packer. Z. Z.. The Empty Facts of the Breonna Taylor Decision. 2020-12-06. The New Yorker. en-us.
- Web site: ZZ Packer. 2020-12-06. www.whiting.org.
- Web site: Commonwealth Club awards.
- Web site: 2007-07-30. 2004 Alex Awards. 2020-12-06. Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). en.
- Web site: 5 Under 35 Archives. 2020-12-06. National Book Foundation. en-US.
- http://www.granta.com/Magazine/97October 2007
- Tessa Decarlo, "Comedienne of Manners", Smithsonian magazine, October 2007.
- News: Bosman. Julie. 2010-06-02. 20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others. The New York Times.
- http://tulanecw.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/francine-prose-debuts-new-story-during-tulane-visit/ "Francine Prose Debuts New Story During Tulane Visit"
- http://www.sjsu.edu/cwmfa/visiting_writers.html "Visiting Writers"
- http://www.utexas.edu/academic/mcw/faculty/visiting-faculty/zz-packer/ "ZZ Packer"
- Web site: - English Department - Vassar College. english.vassar.edu.
- Web site: People | Iowa Writers' Workshop | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | The University of Iowa. writersworkshop.uiowa.edu.
- Web site: New non-tenure track faculty join CLASS. 2020-12-06. www.uh.edu. en.
- Web site: SFSU.
- Web site: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing | "fiction".
- Web site: Ten New Faculty Appointments Join Hunter Hunter College. 2020-12-06. hunter.cuny.edu. 15 September 2020.
- Web site: Bio .
- Web site: Former Stegner Fellows Creative Writing Program. 2020-12-06. creativewriting.stanford.edu.
- Web site: ZZ Packer - Artist. 2020-12-06. MacDowell. en.
- Web site: Montalvo Arts Center ZZ Packer. 2020-12-06. montalvoarts.org.
- http://www.sfgrotto.org "News"
- http://www.princeton.edu/arts/lewis_center/society_of_fellows/fellows/packer/ ZZ Packer - 2010 Hodder Fellow
- Web site: Previous Fellows Dobie Paisano Fellowship The University of Texas at Austin. 2020-12-06. dobiepaisano.utexas.edu.
- Web site: ZZ Packer. April 22, 2014. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
- Web site: Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows. hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu.
- Web site: Senior Fellows | Watson Institute. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.