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Hill welcomes writer-in-residence to campus for two days |
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 Josip Novakovich, prize-winning author and professor of creative writing at Concordia University (Montreal), will visit The Hill School as a writer-in-residence on Thursday, October 27, and Friday, October 28. During his time on campus, Mr. Novakovich will teach students in Hill’s English 4 Honors classes.
Mr. Novakovich is the author of the novel April Fool’s Day, three essay collections, three story collections (Salvation and Other Disasters was a NYT Notable Book of the year), and two writing textbooks, including Fiction Writer’s Workshop, which was named a Quality Paperback and Book of the Month Club selection. His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. A recipient of the Whiting Writer’s Award, the Ingram Merrill Award, and an American Book Award, Mr. Novakovich has been a writing fellow of the New York Library and of the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas. Before becoming a professor at Concordia University, he taught at the University of Cincinnati and Penn State University.
Mr. Novakovich lived in Croatia until he was 20. He interrupted studying medicine in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, to move to the United States, where he earned a B.A. in psychology at Vassar College, a master's of divinity degree at Yale University, and an M.A. in English and creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a new collection of essays, The Art of Coughing, which will be released this winter, and he has just completed a satirical novel, Russian Doubles.
Novakovich, who is on sabbatical from Concordia, currently is working on a novel set in the Great War on the Eastern Front. |
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