Fred G. Leebron

Fred Leebron, a graduate of Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, and The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, has published stories in magazines and anthologies such as Tin House, DoubleTake, Grand Street, Ploughshares, North American Review, Triquarterly, and Flash Fiction. He is author of the novels Out West, Six Figures, and In the Middle of All This; co-editor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology; and co-author of Creating Fiction: A Writer's Companion. The Canadian production of Six Figures premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2005, and the feature film of his short story "Life in Wartime" is currently in development. Awards for his writing include an O. Henry Award, a Puschart Prize, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a James Michener Award, a Fulbright Scholarship, a Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Fellowship, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Iowa, and Stanford University; and currently he also serves as Program Director of the Low Residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, and as Curriculum Director for the Tinker Mountain Writers Workshop at Hollins University. His personal essays appear frequently in publications such as More Magazine, Parenting Magazine, and Redbook, and have been anthologized in trade market anthologies such as The Eleventh Draft (HarperCollins), Money Changes Everything (Doubleday), and The Bastard on the Couch (HarperCollins). This summer, Fred Leebron is finishing up a year in Barcelona, where he is completing a draft of a new novel, writing personal essays and short stories for magazines, and serving as co-director of travel for the Barcelona Slackers.