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, Miro came to the University of Arkansas and completed a
bachelor's degree in Psychology, followed by an MFA in Creative Writing. At
the U of A, he received one Baucum Fulkerson,
two Lily Peter
awards and a Walton Fellowship in fiction. In 2008
The Southern Review awarded his 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.
Miro's debut collection of stories will be
published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux some time in the near future.
He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas and a fiction
editor of the
American
Literary Review.