Miroslav Penkov  

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                      -- Biography --

Miroslav Penkov
A Brief Biography

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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.