B.A. 1982 Oberlin College
M.F.A. 1991 University of Iowa
On the PSU faculty since 2009

FIELDS: Fiction; literary nonfiction

BIOGRAPHY: Charles D'Ambrosio is from the Pacific Northwest. Many of his stories originally appeared in The New Yorker, and he has also published fiction in The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. His work has been widely anthologized and selected for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Award. His first book was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and his most recent collection, The Dead Fish Museum, was a finalist for the Pen/ Faulkner Award. Among other awards, he has been the recipient of A Whiting Writer's Award and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He recently received a Lannan Literary Fellowship.

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
The Point, Little Brown & Co, February 1995
The Dead Fish Museum, Knopf, April 2006

ESSAY COLLECTIONS
Orphans, Clear Cut Press, February 2005