Alan Ziegler’s most recent books are?Short: An International Anthology of 500 Years of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms?(editor);?Love at First Sight: An Alan Ziegler Reader;?and?The Writing Workshop Note Book. Previous books include?The Swan Song of Vaudeville: Tales and Takes;?The Green Grass of Flatbush?(stories);?So Much To Do?(poems); and?The Writing Workshop, Volumes I and II. Ziegler is the recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Word Beat Fiction Book Award (selected by George Plimpton), four PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, a CAPS (Creative Artists in Public Service) fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts grants for?Some?literary magazine and Release Press, which he co-edited. He is a recipient of Columbia’s Presidential Teaching Award, and he chaired the Writing Program from 2001-2006; currently he is Director of Pedagogy. Ziegler received a B.S. from Union College and a Masters in Creative Writing from City College of New York, where he studied with Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, and Joel Oppenheimer.
Alan’s current manuscript is Based on a?True Life: Flash Memoirs and Squibs.
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