Genre Fiction Partner Edward Cahill Role Novelist | Name Mark Poirier Literary movement Postmodern | |
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Occupation Novelist, Short Story Writer, Screenwriter Notable works GoatsModern Ranch LivingSmart People Movies Hateship, Loveship, Smart People, Goats Books Modern Ranch Living, Goats, Naked Pueblo, Unsung Heroes of American, Intro to Alien Invasion Similar People Liza Johnson, Noam Murro, Christine Lahti, Robert Ogden Barnum, Thomas Haden Church | ||
Mark Jude Poirier is an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter who teaches creative writing at Harvard.
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Personal life
He grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the fifth child in a family of eleven children. He lives in New York City with his partner, Edward Cahill.
Career
He wrote the novels Modern Ranch Living and Goats as well as the short story collections Unsung Heroes of American Industry and Naked Pueblo.
He served as the editor of the book The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us, including short pieces by George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, A. M. Homes and Nathan Englander.
At one time, Poirier was named "the young American writer to watch" by the Times Literary Supplement. He has been the recipient of a Maytag Fellowship and a James Michener Fellowship.
He is currently working as a screenwriter and is the author of Smart People and the adaptation of his novel Goats. He was awarded a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with Paramount Pictures.
He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and Stanford University. He taught at Bennington College and Columbia University. He is currently teaching screenwriting at Harvard University.