Paul witcover biography
- Instructor Biography: MA, author of six novels, including The Watchman of Eternity, and a collection of short stories, Everland and Other Stories.
- A 1980 graduate of the renowned Clarion Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, Witcover has worked as a freelance writer and editor.
- Born in Zurich, Paul Witcover is a writer and critic.
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Paul Witcover
Associate Dean, Online MFA
Paul Witcover is the author of the novels “Waking Beauty,” “Tumbling After,” “Dracula: Asylum,” “The Emperor of All Things,” “The Watchman of Eternity” and “Lincolnstein.” His short fiction is collected in “Everland and Other Stories.” He has been a finalist for the Nebula, World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards, and he has served on the jury for the Jackson and Philip K. Dick awards. His book reviews and critical essays
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Paul Witcover
Instructor Biography:
MA, author of six novels, including The Watchman of Eternity, and a collection of short stories, Everland and Other Stories. Mr. Witcover was a finalist for the World Fantasy, Nebula, and Shirley Jackson awards. His critical essays and book reviews have appeared in Locus, Realms of Fantasy, and The New York Review of Science Fiction. With writer Elizabeth Hand, he co-created and co-wrote the DC Comics series Anima.
Instructor Statement:
The Replacements sang about having “one foot in the door, the other one in the gutter.” That’s how I feel sometimes as a freelance writer, with an MA in Creative Writing, who works in the speculative fiction genre—and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I take the craft of writing seriously, and I do my best to communicate my enthusiasm and experience in this area, as writer and editor, to my students. At the same time, I know what it’s like to cobble together a living as a professional writer, and I try to share the reality of that with my students as well. What I try most of all to share is my lo
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Witcover, Paul
PERSONAL: Born in Zurich, Switzerland; son of Jules Witcover (a political columnist). Education: Clarion Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, Michigan State University, graduated 1980.
ADDRESSES: Home—New York, NY. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Eos, 10 E. 53rd St., 7th Fl., New York, NY 10022. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Writer. Freelance editor and novelist.
WRITINGS:
Zora Neale Hurston (biography), Chelsea House (New York, NY), 1991.
Waking Beauty (novel), HarperPrism (New York, NY), 1997.
Tumbling After (novel), Eos (New York, NY), 2005.
Also creator, with Elizabeth Hand, of Anima comic-book series for DC Comics.
SIDELIGHTS: Paul Witcover knew from an early age that he wanted to become a writer, and his endeavors were strongly influenced by his parents; his father is political columnist Jules Witcover, and his mother was an English teacher and editor. A 1980 graduate of the renowned Clarion Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, Witcover has worked as a freelance writer and editor. His first book, a biography
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