Greg Hrbek

Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

B.A., Vassar College
M.F.A.,  Iowa

Office: Palamountain 310
Phone: (518) 580-8398
Email: ghrbek@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Fiction Writing
• Film 

Courses Taught:

• EN 281: Intro to Fiction Writing
• EN 311: Recent Fiction
• EN 363: Fiction into Film
• EN 377: Reading for Writers
• EN 380: Fiction Workshop

Publications:

• The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly, a novel (Bard/Avon, 1999)
• Short fiction:  Harper's Magazine, Salmagundi, Idaho Review, Black Warrior Review, "Conjunctions" 
• "Bereavement" in The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories(Del Sol Press, 2007)
• "Sagittarius" in The Best American Short Stories 2009(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)
• Destroy All Monsters, stories (U of Nebraska Press, 2011)
• Not on Fire, but Burning, a novel (Melville House, 2015)

Fellowships:

• Alfred Hodder Fellowship (Princeton University)
• US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship (Japan-United States Friendship Commission/National Endowment for the Arts)