Mark Poirier
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Mark Jude Poirier is a contemporary America
n novelist, short fiction writer, and screenwriter
whose work often is set in the Southwestern United States
. He grew up in Tucson, Arizona
, the fifth child in a family of eleven children.
He wrote the novels :
As well as the short story collections :
Recently, he edited 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 a film version of Alice Munro
's short story Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. He was awarded a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with Paramount Pictures
.
He is a graduate of prestigious programs at 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 lives in Weston, Connecticut
with his partner, Edward Cahill.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
n novelist, short fiction writer, and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
whose work often is set in the Southwestern United States
Southwestern United States
The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...
. He grew up in Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
, the fifth child in a family of eleven children.
He wrote the novels :
- GoatsGoats (novel)Goats is a 2001 novel by Mark Jude Poirier.It was published by Miramax Books and was optioned by American Zoetrope, Francis Ford Coppola's film company. As of 2011, the movie is being filmed in Tucson, directed by Coppola's nephew Christopher Neil and starring David Duchovny, Vera Farmiga, Keri...
(2000) - Modern Ranch LivingModern Ranch LivingModern Ranch Living is a 2004 novel by Mark Jude Poirier.It was published by Miramax Books. The novel concerns the connection between a pair of very different loners during a hot summer in Arizona....
(2004)
As well as the short story collections :
- Naked PuebloNaked PuebloNaked Pueblo is an acclaimed short story collection written by Mark Jude Poirier and first published by Crown in 1998. Poirier's debut collection, it includes the following stories, all set in and around Tucson, Arizona:-...
(1998) - Unsung Heroes of American IndustryUnsung Heroes of American IndustryUnsung Heroes of American Industry is a 2001 short story collection by Mark Jude Poirier.It was published by Miramax Books. It includes the short stories "Buttons", "Worms", "Gators", "Pageantry", and "A Note on the Type"....
(2003)
Recently, he edited 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
George Saunders
George Saunders is a New York Times bestselling American writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children's books. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's and GQ, among other publications...
, Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer who lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Egan's novel A Visit From the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction....
, A. M. Homes
A. M. Homes
Amy M. Homes is an American writer. She is best-known for her controversial novels and unusual stories, most notably The End of Alice , a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer...
and Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander is a Jewish-American author born in Long Island, NY in 1970. He wrote the short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1999...
. 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
Smart People
Smart People is a 2008 American comedy-drama film starring Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ellen Page and Thomas Haden Church. The film was directed by Noam Murro, written by Mark Poirier and produced by Michael London, with Omar Amanat serving as executive producer.Smart People was filmed on...
, and a film version of Alice Munro
Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
's short story Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. He was awarded a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
.
He is a graduate of prestigious programs at the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...
, the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
, and Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. He taught at Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College is a liberal arts college located in Bennington, Vermont, USA. The college was founded in 1932 as a women's college and became co-educational in 1969.-History:-Early years:...
and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
.
He lives in Weston, Connecticut
Weston, Connecticut
Weston is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The population was 10,179 at the 2010 census. The town is served by Route 57 and Route 53, both of which run through the town center. About 19% of the town's workforce commutes to New York City, about to the southwest.Like many towns in...
with his partner, Edward Cahill.