Paul Lisicky

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American novelist and memoirist (born 1959)

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Early life

Lisicky was born on July 9, 1959. He grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and graduated from Cherry Hill High School East. He graduated from Rutgers University–New Brunswick, earned an MA from Rutgers University–Camden and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Career

Lisicky taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Rutgers University-Newark, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and elsewhere. He is now an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden.

Lisicky is the author of seven books: Lawnboy, Famous Builder, The Burning House, Unbuilt Projects, The Narrow Door, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, and Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell.

His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Ecotone, Fence, The New York Times, The Offing, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a Fellow. He is the editor of StoryQuarterly and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

In 2021, Paul Lisicky appeared on Storybound reading an excerpt from Later : my life at the edge of the world, with music sampled from Jordan Warmack.

Personal life

Lisicky lives in Brooklyn, New York City. From 1995 until 2011, his partner was the writer Mark Doty. They were married in 2008 and divorced in 2013.

References

References

  1. Korman, Nina. [http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1999-11-11/calendar/lawnboy-s-own-story/ "Lawnboy's Own Story: The Miami Book Fair International"], ''[[Miami New Times]]'', November 11, 1999. Accessed November 29, 2008. "Lisicky's book, a six-year project, is an evocative, sensitively rendered portrait of a young gay man coming of age in our parts. The author grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, lives most of the year in Houston, Texas, where he teaches, and spends the summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts."
  2. Kelley, Tina. [https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/paul-lisicky/ "Jersey-Born Author Revisits Life During AIDS Epidemic"], ''[[New Jersey Monthly]]'', March 23, 2020. AccessedOctober 20, 2025. "Lisicky, a product of Cherry Hill East High School and Rutgers University, revisits 1991–1994, his years in the gay-embracing arts scene at the tip of Cape Cod, where he discovered how it felt to live at one with his body."
  3. "CV".
  4. Lisicky, Paul. (2006). "Lawnboy : a novel". Graywolf Press.
  5. Lisicky, Paul.. (2002). "Famous builder". Graywolf Press.
  6. Lisicky, Paul. (19 January 2016). "The narrow door : a memoir of friendship".
  7. Lisicky, Paul. (17 March 2020). "Later : my life at the edge of the world".
  8. Guthmann, Edward. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/03/DD17641.DTL&type=books "Memories Of a Lost Childhood"], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', November 3, 1999. Accessed October 16, 2007. "His partner of four years, novelist Paul Lisicky (''Lawnboy''), travels with him and provided a valuable sounding board during the writing of ''Firebird.''"
  9. "New Life".

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