Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the internationally acclaimed Corpus Christi: Stories and the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Irish Times,Corpus Christi: Stories received The Southern Review's Annual Short Fiction Award, the Texas Institute of Letters' Debut Fiction Award, the Christopher Isherwood Prize, and the James Michener Fellowship. Bret Anthony Johnston’s work has appeared in literary magazines such as The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The OxfordAmerican, and Tin House, and in anthologies such as New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2003, 2004, and 2005. He is a graduate of Miami University and the recipient of the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. In 2006, the National Book Foundation honoured him with a new National Book Award for writers under thirty-five.
is the author of the internationally acclaimed Corpus Christi: Stories and the editor of Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Irish Times, Corpus Christi: Stories received The Southern Review's Annual Short Fiction Award, the Texas Institute of Letters' Debut Fiction Award, the Christopher Isherwood Prize, and the James Michener Fellowship. Bret Anthony Johnston’s work has appeared in literary magazines such as The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Oxford American, and Tin House, and in anthologies such as New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2003, 2004, and 2005. He is a graduate of Miami University and the recipient of the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. In 2006, the National Book Foundation honoured him with a new National Book Award for writers under thirty-five.