Darrell Spencer Explained

Darrell Spencer
Nationality:	American
Education:	University of Utah (PhD)
Awards:	Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2000) Drue Heinz Literature Prize (2004)

Darrell Spencer (born 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his short stories, which are widely published in literary journals and have been the recipients of several awards.^[1]

Life

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah.

Spencer recently retired from teaching literature and creative writing at Ohio University. He has been praised by Michael Chabon for "[possessing] a remarkable ear for the cadence of everyday speech," and by The New York Times Book Review for his "writing [which] crackles with freshness and lucidity, featuring characters who slide into one another in random encounters and relationships."^[2]

He currently teaches creative writing at Southern Utah University.

Awards

• 2004 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
• 2010 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame
• 2000 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.^[3]

Bibliography

• A Woman Packing a Pistol (1987), a collection of short stories.
• Our Secret's Out (1993), a collection of short stories.
• Caution: Men in Trees (2002), a collection of short stories.
• Bring Your Legs with You (2004), interconnected short stories.
• One Mile Past Dangerous Curve (2005), a novel.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Past winners of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize . 2019-05-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070518204118/http://www.upress.pitt.edu/renderHtmlPage.aspx?srcHtml=htmlSourceFiles%2Fdrueheinz.htm . 2007-05-18 . dead .
2. https://www.amazon.com/Mile-Past-Dangerous-Curve-ebook/dp/B002LE8FO6 Back-cover blurb
3. http://www.ugapress.org/FOC_winners.html Flannery O'Connor Award Winners