ZZ Packer shares a short story during a Resident Reading at Vermont Studio Center. She was a resident for the month of August, 2015.
ZZ received her BA from Yale University in English Literature, an MA from Johns Hopkins and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the highly acclaimed “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Stories,” which was a National Book Award 5 Under 35 Winner and a New York Times notable book. Her new novel, “The Thousands,” is forthcoming in 2016. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, Zoetrope, and Harpers, among many others, and her non-fiction in the New York Times Magazine and also the Book Review, Smithsonian Magazine, The Oxford American, and Salon.com, to name but a few. Currently at MIT, ZZ has taught at San Francisco State University, California College of the Arts, University of Houston, the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and University of Texas. She was the Distinguished Visiting Lurie Chair at San Jose State University, Jones Lecturer at Stanford, and Zale Distinguished Lecturer at Tulane. Residencies include MacDowell Colony, Ucross, and Villa Montalvo, and she has been awarded the Radcliffe Institute Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellowship at Harvard, American Academy in Berlin Prize, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford.
