Hrbek publishes new story collection

Skidmore Writer-in-Residence Greg Hrbek has published a new collection of stories, Destroy All Monsters  (University of Nebraska Press, 2011). 

The collection won the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, sponsored by the University of Nebraska.

The reviewer from Booklist writes, "Hrbek's first collection subtly and masterfully merges the everyday and the mythic, poetic, futuristic, and seemingly impossible." Michael Adelberg, writing in the New York Journal of Books, says,"Hrbek's writing is often lovely and sparse -almost poetic."

A Skidmore faculty member since 2001, Hrbekis the recipient of fellowships from the University of Iowa, the Michener Copernicus Society, Princeton University, and the NEA/Japan-US Friendship Commission. His novel, The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly, was awarded the James Jones First Novel Award by the James Jones Literary Society. Hrbek's short fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2009, Harper's Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Idaho Review, Sonora Review, Salmagundi, The 2007 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories, and the Bridport Prize 2006 (UK).

Click here to read more about Destroy All Monsters.