Miroslav Penkov
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Miroslav Penkov

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Miroslav Penkov was born in 1982 in Bulgaria. He moved to the United States in 2001 on a scholarship to study psychology at the University of Arkansas, where he subsequently gained an MFA in creative writing. His stories have won the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award and The Southern Review's Eudora Welty Prize and have appeared in journals and anthologies including Granta, The Best American Short Stories (edited by Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor) and The PEN / O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. Published in more than a dozen countries, his collection EAST OF THE WEST was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction. His debut novel, STORK MOUNTAIN, was published by Sceptre in 2016. Penkov teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, where he is the editor-in-chief of the American Literary Review.
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