Biography
Miroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in
Gabrovo, Bulgaria. When he was four, his family moved to the capital city of Sofia,
where he graduated from First English Language High School. He
arrived in America in 2001 and completed a bachelor's degree in
Psychology, followed by an MFA in Creative Writing at the University
of Arkansas.
His stories have won The Southern Review’s Eudora Welty Prize
and have appeared in or are forthcoming from A Public Space, One
Story, Orion, The Sunday Times, Granta Online, The Best American
Short Stories 2008, The 2012 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories.
EAST OF THE WEST, which is his first book, was published in the
U.S. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and in
ten other countries.
In Bulgaria his own translation of the stories was be published by Ciela under the title
"На
Изток от
Запада."
Miroslav is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas and currently the editor of the American Literary Review.
Contact
To contact me please write to:
mpenkov@gmail.com
To contact my literary agent:
Sorche Fairbank
Fairbank Literary Representation
P.O. Box 6, Hudson
New York, 12534-0006
617-576-0030
sorche@fairbankliterary.com