Christopher Barzak is an American

United States

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 author. He has published many short stories, beginning with "A Mad Tea Party" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is a twice-yearly small press zine published by Small Beer Press, edited by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link. It contains an eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with an emphasis on speculative fiction, fantasy or slipstream. Link, Karen Joy Fowler, and...

in 1999. In 2007 he published his debut novel

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, One for Sorrow, which has won the 2008 Crawford Award

Crawford Award

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, and was a nominee for the 2008 Great Lakes Book Award as well as the Logo Channel's NewNowNext Award. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, was placed on the 2008 James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List and was a 2009 Nebula Award nominee for Best Novel. He has also worked as a teacher outside of Tokyo

Tokyo

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. Barzak holds an MFA

Master of Fine Arts

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 in Creative Writing

Creative writing

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 from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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. Currently, he teaches fiction writing at Youngstown State University

Youngstown State University

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, in Youngstown, Ohio

Youngstown, Ohio

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Novels

• One for Sorrow (novel)
  One for Sorrow (novel)
  One for Sorrow is a coming-of-age novel by the American writer Christopher Barzak.It tells the story of Adam McCormick, age fifteen, and his relationship to Jamie Marks, a boy found murdered in the woods, but does not follow the traditional suspense or mystery novel's convention of tracking down...
  
  . New York: Bantam
  Bantam Books
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  , 2007
  2007 in literature
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• The Love We Share Without Knowing (novel). New York: Bantam
  Bantam Books
  Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by Random House, the German media corporation subsidiary of Bertelsmann; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine...
  
  , 2008
  2008 in literature
  The year 2008 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*January 1 - In the 2008 New Year Honours, Hanif Kureishi , Jenny Uglow , Peter Vansittart and Debjani Chatterjee are all rewarded for "services to literature".*June 15 - Gore Vidal, asked in a New York Times...
  
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As Editor

• Interfictions 2 (with Delia Sherman). Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2009
  2009 in literature
  The year 2009 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*8 October - Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature....
  
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External links

• Christopher Barzak's Blog
• Interview at Locus Online
  Locus (magazine)
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