Rick DeMarinis (born 1934 in New York) is an American novelist and short story writer.
He taught at the University of Montana, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso.
His short stories have appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, GQ, The Paris Review, and The Iowa Review.
Two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships1986 Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction1990 Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters1999 Jesse H. Jones Award for fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters2000 Independent Publishers Award for the best book of short fictionA Lovely Monster: The Adventures of Claude Rains and Dr. Tellenbeck: a novel. Simon and Schuster. 1975. ISBN 978-0-671-22175-1. Scimitar. Avon Books. 1977. ISBN 0-380-01873-X. Cinder. Farrar Straus & Giroux. 1978. ISBN 0-374-12364-0. The Burning Women of Far Cry. Arbor House. 1986. ISBN 0-87795-815-7. The Year of the Zinc Penny. Seven Stories Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-58322-638-4. (1st edition 1989)The Mortician's Apprentice. W.W. Norton and Company. 1994. ISBN 0-393-03662-6. A Clod of Wayward Marl. Dennis McMillan Publications. 2001. ISBN 978-0-939767-37-3. A Sky Full of Sand. Dennis McMillan Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-0-939767-47-2. Mama's Boy. Seven Stories Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-58322-911-8. El Paso Twilight. Bangtail Press. 2015. ISBN 978-0962378973. Jack & Jill: Two Novellas and a Story. E.P. Dutton. 1979. ISBN 0-525-13575-8. Under the wheat. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-8229-3544-5. The Voice of America. W.W. Norton & Company. 1991. ISBN 0-393-02967-0. The coming triumph of the free world: stories. W. W. Norton & Company. 1991. ISBN 978-0-393-30746-7. Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories. Seven Stories Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-58322-040-5. "Desperado". blackbird.vcu.edu. Fall 2002. Apocalypse Then: Stories. Seven Stories Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1583226377. The Art and Craft of the Short Story. iUniverse.com. 2008. ISBN 978-0-595-52229-3. Shannon Ravenel, Tony Earley, eds. (1999). "Borrowed Hearts". New stories from the South: the year's best, 1999. Algonquin Books. ISBN 978-1-56512-247-5. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)Donna Seaman, ed. (2002). "weeds". In our nature: stories of wildness. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2457-9. 
