Miroslav Penkov
A Brief Biography
Miroslav Penkov was born in Bulgaria and lived there, in the capital city
of Sofia, until he graduated from First English Language High school. In 2001,
at the
age of eighteen, Miroslav came to the University of Arkansas and completed a
bachelor's degree in Psychology. Miroslav is currently finishing his MFA in
Creative Writing at the U of A, where his stories have received one Baucum Fulkerson,
two Lily Peter
awards and a Walton Fellowship in fiction. In 2008
The Southern Review awarded Miroslav's story "Buying Lenin" the 2007
Eudora Welty Prize in fiction. A month later Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor
chose the story to appear in the 2008 Best American Short Stories.
Miroslav's debut collection of stories will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux some time in the near future.