Courtney Angela Brkic Explained

Courtney Angela Brkic
Birth Place:	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality:	Croatian American
Education:	Yorktown High School College of William & Mary New York University (MFA)
Awards:	Whiting Award (2003)

Courtney Angela Brkic (born 1972) is a Croatian American memoirist, short story writer, and academic.

Early life

Brkic is a native of Washington, D.C. who grew up in Arlington, Virginia and graduated from Yorktown High School. She graduated from the College of William & Mary with a major in anthropology and a minor in Hispanic Studies. Before earning her MFA from New York University, Brkic lived in Bosnia, Croatia, and the Netherlands.^[1]

Career

In 1996, at the age of 23, she went to eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of a Physicians for Human Rights forensic team. She spent a month helping to exhume and identify the bodies of thousands of men and boys who were massacred by Serb forces the year before.^[2] She went on to work as a summary translator for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

She has taught creative writing at New York University, the Cooper Union, and Kenyon College, where she held the Richard L. Thomas Chair in Creative Writing in 2006.^{[3] [4]} She teaches at George Mason University, and lives in New York City with her husband, Phil.^[5]

Awards

• 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant
• 2003 Whiting Award for Fiction and Nonfiction ^[6]
• Fulbright Scholarship to research women in Croatia's war-affected population
• New York Times Fellowship.

Works

Books

• Book: Stillness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003. 978-0-374-26999-9.
• Book: The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004. 978-0-374-20774-8. Book: reprint. Picador. 2005. 978-0-312-42439-8 .
• Book: The First Rule of Swimming . Little, Brown and Company . 2013 . 978-0-31621-738-5 .

Translations

• Book: A.B. Simic . Translator Courtney Angela Brkic . Modern Poetry in Translation 18 . April 2002 . King's College . 978-0-9533824-4-6 . 2009-12-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070731134126/http://www.mptmagazine.com/mpt_18_european_voices_i0623.aspx . 2007-07-31 . dead .

Short stories

• Summer 2003 . Adiyo, Kerido . Zoetrope: All-Story . 7 . 2 . 2015-09-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150907204959/http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=197 . 2015-09-07 . dead .
• Spring 2006 . Departure . Kenyon Review . 28 . 2 . 4–10 .
• Dec 2006 . the offering . North American Review . 290 . 6 . 30–33 .
• Winter 2006 . Gathering Up the Gods . Missouri Review . 29 . 4 . 42–57 . 10.1353/mis.2007.0035 . 162189911 . ^[7]

Essays

• 16 January 2005 . Smoldering . Washington Post Magazine . W21 .

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Courtney Angela Brkic: Author of Stone Fields converses with Robert Birnbaum", identity theory, May 24, 2005
• "The Stone Fields by Courtney Angela Brkic", Bookslut, October 2004
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Courtney Angela Brkic. Robert. Birnbaum. May 24, 2005. Identity Theory.
2. Web site: Courtney Angela Brkic - Identity Theory. 24 May 2005. 7 April 2017.
3. Web site: Thomas Chair - News Room - Kenyon College . 2009-12-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100612055628/http://www.kenyon.edu/x30298.xml . 2010-06-12 .
4. Web site: The Richard L. Thomas Chair in Creative Writing - Kenyon College . 2009-12-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090801080113/http://www.kenyon.edu/x8835.xml . 2009-08-01 .
5. Web site: Faculty and Staff: Courtney Angela Brkic. 7 April 2017.
6. Web site: Courtney A. Brkic - WHITING AWARDS. 28 August 2016.
7. Web site: Faculty and Staff: Courtney Angela Brkic. 28 August 2016.