• 2016 University of Copenhagen, Denmark (for Fulbright consideration)

• 2015 University of Trieste, Italy (for Fulbright consideration)

• 2015 River Bend Film Festival, Screenplay, Short listed

• 2015 Firereel Film Festival, Screenplay, Short listed

• 2014 Fulbright Fellowship, University of Stockholm, Sweden

• 2014-15 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2014 Williamsburg International Film Festival, Screenplay Honorable Mention

• 2014 Chicago Film Festival, Screenplay Finalist

• 2014 Oregon International Film Festival, Screenplay, 3rd Place

• 2014 Illinois International Film Festival, Screenplay, 1st Place

• 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, University of Stockholm, Sweden

• 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellowship, University of São Paulo, Brazil

• 2008 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2007 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2007 Fulbright Commission, Finalist, Fulbright Fellowship to Berlin.

• 2006 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2005 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2004 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2003-2004 Chapman University, Creative Writing, Sabbatical Leave

• 2003 Mary S. Roberts Foundation, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2001 California Council for the Humanities, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2001 Elizabeth George Foundation, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2000 Elizabeth George Foundation, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 2000 California Council for the Humanities, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 1999 California Council for the Humanities, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

• 1996-97 Leverhulme Fellowship in Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England

• 1992-94 Chapman University, Hua-Cheng Wang Fellowship for Creative/Scholarly Writing

• 1993 Scottish Association of Filmmakers, Award in Screenwriting, Edinburgh, Scotland

• 1992 Writers Guild of America-East, Fellowship in Screenwriting, New York, NY

• 1991 Steppenwolf Theatre Company, New Plays Fellowship, Finalist, Chicago, IL

• 1991 London International Film & Video Festival, Silver Seal Award for Screenwriting, London, England

• 1990 Festival Internacional de Video do Algarve, Nova 90, Bronze Award for Screenwriting, Algarve, Portugal

• 1990 University of Iowa, Tim McGinnis Award, Best Short Story 1990, Iowa Review, Iowa City, IA

• 1990 University of Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum, National Teleplay Award, Madison, WI

• 1989-90 Edinburgh University, Leverhulme Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Edinburgh, Scotland

• 1989 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, Finalist, Los Angeles, CA

• 1988 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, Finalist, Los Angeles, CA

• 1988 University of Minnesota, Educational Development Grant

• 1988 University of Minnesota, Comparative Literature Dissertation Fellowship

• 1987 University of Minnesota, Comparative Literature Research Grant

• 1987 Writers Guild of America-East, Fellowship in Screenwriting, Finalist, New York, NY

• 1987 University of Minnesota, Special Doctoral Grant

• 1986 University of Minnesota, Harold Leonard Film Studies Grant

• 1986 Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Fiction Writing, Cassis, France

• 1986 Maxwell Perkins Award for Fiction Writing, Finalist, New York, NY

• 1986 Sundance Institute Fellowship for Screenwriting, Finalist, Burbank, CA

• 1985 Bush Foundation Fellowship for Fiction Writing, Finalist, St. Paul, MN

• 1984 Sundance Institute Fellowship for Screenwriting, Finalist, Burbank, CA

• 1984 Western Illinois University National Playwriting Award, Normal, IL

• 1982 Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Fiction Writing, Cassis, France

• 1981 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant in Fiction, Finalist, St. Paul, MN

• 1978 Oxford University, International Institute of Education Scholarship

• 1976 Alliance Française National Literary Essay Award, First Prize, New York, NY

• 1976 Indiana University Experimental Fiction Writing Award, Bloomington, IN

• 1975 Alliance Française National Literary Essay Award, Second Prize, New York, NY

• 1974 Alliance Française National Literary Essay Award, Second Prize, New York, NY

"I will go on". Beckett and Mark Axelrod, painting by argentine painter Carlos Muslera.

• Bombay, California

• Cardboard Castles

• Cloud Castles

• Capital Castles

• The Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash

• Borges’ Travel, Hemingway’s Garage

• The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Balzac Beckett & Cortazar

• The Poetics of Novels

• How Abbie Goldman Got Kissed in Venice

• The Next Thing

• Aspects of a Screenplay

• Character & Conflict

• Constructing Dialogue

• I Read it at The Movies

• The Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey

• The Fal and Rise of Malcolm Malarkey

• Malarkey’s Way; or Life & Death in the time of Covid

• This is not a screenplay

• Repetition

• Malarkey, Lost Among The Florentines

• Malarkey, Lost Among The Parisians

• Malarkey’s Way; or Life & Death in the time of Covid Vol. III

He has taught or conducted screenwriting seminars and workshops throughout Latin America, Europe, the United Kingdom as well as the United States including stints at:

Panteion University (Athens) (as part of a Fulbright Fellowship)

Aarhus University (Denmark) (as part of a Fulbright Fellowship)

Scuola Holden, Turin, Italy

University of Bergen, Norway (as part of a Fulbright Fellowship)

Baltic Film and Media School, Tallinn, Estonia

University of Stockholm, Sweden (as part of a Fulbright Fellowship)

University of São Paulo, Brazil (as part of a Fulbright Fellowship)

United States Embassy Lecture, Buenos Aires, Argentina

ARCOS Film School, Santiago, Chile

UNIACC Film School, Santiago, Chile

Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba [the school founded by

Gabriel García Márquez]

Goethe Institute, Santiago, Chile (with Antonio Skármeta [author of Il Postino])

SICA, the Cinematographer’s Union of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Proyectos Culturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina

National Film School of Denmark, Copenhagen [with Mogens Rukov screenwriter of

Celebration]

University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland

Grimme Akademie, Cologne, Germany

Flemish Film Academy, University of Leuven, Belgium

PILOTS, Sitges, Spain

Edinburgh University, Scotland (as part of a Leverhulme Fellowship)

University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina

University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK (as part of a Leverhulme Fellowship

Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Independent Features North, Minneapolis, MN

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Elmira College, Elmira, NY

Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Paris Writers Workshop, Paris, France

Hamburg Media School, Hamburg, Germany

United States Embassy, Berlin (multiple German universities)

Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Frankfort

United States Embassy, Santiago, Chile

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• CHARACTER & CONFLICT→

• I READ IT AT THE MOVIES→

• CONSTRUCTING DIALOGUE→

LITERARY CRITICISM REVISED

The Poetics of Scandinavian Literature: Literary Essays from Strindberg to Bergman

(Palgrave Macmillan, publication TBD)

(Un)theories of Fiction: Literary Essays from Diderot to David Markson (Palgrave

Macmillan, Fall, 2021)

Notions of Otherness: Literary Essays from Abraham Cahan to Dacia Maraini

(Anthem Publishing, Fall, 2018)

For Madmen Only: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2018)

If on a winter’s night a traveler: Literary Essays from Lermontov to Calvino (Palgrave,

Macmillan, 2016)

No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Ibsen to Beckett (Palgrave

Macmillan, 2014)

Notions of the Feminine: Literary Essays from D.H. Lawrence to Fuentes (Palgrave

Macmillan, 2014)

The Poetics of Novels (Macmillan Press, UK, 1999)

The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Beckett, Balzac and Cortázar (Macmillan Press,

UK, 1992)

LITERARY CRITICISM REVISED

The Poetics of Scandinavian Literature: Literary Essays from Strindberg to Bergman

(Palgrave Macmillan, publication TBD)

(Un)theories of Fiction: Literary Essays from Diderot to David Markson (Palgrave

Macmillan, Fall, 2021)

Notions of Otherness: Literary Essays from Abraham Cahan to Dacia Maraini

(Anthem Publishing, Fall, 2018)

For Madmen Only: Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2018)

If on a winter’s night a traveler: Literary Essays from Lermontov to Calvino (Palgrave,

Macmillan, 2016)

No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Ibsen to Beckett (Palgrave

Macmillan, 2014)

Notions of the Feminine: Literary Essays from D.H. Lawrence to Fuentes (Palgrave

Macmillan, 2014)

The Poetics of Novels (Macmillan Press, UK, 1999)

The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Beckett, Balzac and Cortázar (Macmillan Press,

UK, 1992)

Poetry

Cahier de Paris & Prose Poems from Other Places (1977)

Collected Prose Poems 1976-1982

Neville Chamberlain’s Chimera (Membrane Press, 1971)

Non-Fiction

Anathemas & Admirations: Posthumous Papers of a Living Author (Memoir, 2020)

Literary Guide to Trumpian Rhetoric (2017)

Milan Panić: Big Thoughts Are Free (Authorized Biography, Peter Lang, April 2015)

Fiction

KAPTOHHI 3AMKN (CARDBOARD CASTLES) (Novel, translated and published by Old

Lion Publishing, Kiev, Ukraine, October 2023)

THE MALARKEY NOVELS—

MAD DIARY OF MALCOLM MALARKEY

THE FALL & RISE OF MALCOLM MALARKEY

MALARKEY’S WAY; OR, LOVE & DEATH IN THE TIME OF COVID

MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE PARISIANS

MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE ARGENTINES

MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE FLORENTINES

MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE GREEKS

MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE ROMANS

MALARKEY IN LOVE (in progress)

LE SCAT NOIR ENCYCLOPEDIA, (Black Scat Press, 2018)

PROOST’S GROCERY & OTHER FICTIONS (2017)

BALZAC’S COFFEE, DAVINCI’S RISTORANTE (Verbivoracious Press, Summer, 2017)

DANTE’S FOIL & OTHER SPORTING TALES, (Black Scat Press, April 2015)

THE CHECKS & BALANCES OF ALFIE SCHILLER (2010)

BARTLEBY’S BOOKS, GATSBY’S CAFÉ (2007)

CAFÉ NIETZSCHE, AXEL’S CHARHOUSE (2005)

VIAJES BORGES, TALLERES HEMINGWAY (short stories), Editorial Thule, Barcelona,

Spain (October 2009)

BORGES’ TRAVEL, HEMINGWAY’S GARAGE (short stories), Fiction Collective 2, Normal,

Illinois (April 2004)

CAPITAL CASTLES (novel). Tustin, CA: Pacific Writers Press (2000)

CLOUD CASTLES (novel). Tustin, CA: Pacific Writers Press, (1999)

CARDBOARD CASTLES (novel). Tustin, CA: Pacific Writers Press, (1996)

BOMBAY CALIFORNIA;OR, HOLLYWOOD SOMEWHERE WEST OF VINE (novel).

Tustin, CA: Pacific Writers Press, 1994

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S CHIMERA; OR, NINE METAPHORS OF VISION (visual

prose). Milwaukee, WI: Membrane Press, 1978

Screenplays/Tele/Plays/Treatments

“Malarkey, Lost Among the Florentines” (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original, 2023)

“Waiting for Beckett: A brief monologue” (One act, 2022)

“Repetition” (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original, 2022)

“Women Of A Certain Age” (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original, 2022)

“This Is Not A Screenplay” (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original, 2022)

“Sherman Oaks, Argentina” (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original, 2021)

“Superman in America and Other Absurd Plays” (Black Scat Press, 2017)

“Malarkey” (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original, 2016)

“The Great Pegram Mystery,” Adaptation of the short story, “The Great Pegram

Mystery,” by Robert Barr (August 2016).

“Blind Date” (Adaptation of the short story, “Blind Date,” by Pablo Baler, July

2016).

“Fool’s Sanctuary” based on novel of the same name by Jennifer Johnston.

(Motion Picture Treatment) [In collaboration with Kettledrum

Productions, Valley Village, CA and director, Graham Grantwell] 2015

“Stayin’ Alive” (Motion Picture Treatment & Screenplay) [In collaboration

with German film producer, Raoul Reinert and Cuckoo Clock Productions,

Hamburg, Germany] 2013

“Encino Story” (Motion Picture Treatment, adaptation of Ozu’s, “Tokyo Story”)

In collaboration with American director, David Anspaugh]

“Moonlight on the Wabash” (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original) [Two- Time Finalist,

Sundance Institute; Finalist, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Nicholl Fellowship

in Screenwriting, Los Angeles, CA]

"Peru" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original)

"Napoléon Awakening" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original)

"The Poet and the Boxer" (Motion Picture Treatment, Original)

“Bitters & the Professor” (Motion Picture Treatment, Original)

“The Retiring James Bond” (Motion Picture Treatment, Original)

“Shakespeare’s Fools” (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original)

"Of Gold and Ashes" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original) [Finalist, Sundance

Institute; Finalist, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting,

Los Angeles, CA]

"Paris Match" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original)

"Operation Alley Ooop" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original)

"The Fall of Evening Thunder" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original) [Finalist, Writers Guild of

America-East, Fellowship in Screenwriting, New York, NY]

"Chicago Bares" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original)

"The Sigma Boys" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original)

"The Sephiros Project" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original)

"An Author's Mother" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Video Adaptation) [1st Prize for

Screenwriting, Scottish Association of Filmmakers, Award in Screenwriting,

Edinburgh, Scotland; Bronze Award for Screenwriting, Internacional de Video

Do Algarve, Algarve, Portugal

"The August Sprinter" (Motion Picture Screenplay, Original)

"The Villiers' Chalice" (Teleplay, Original)

"Doogie Howser, M.D." (Spec Teleplay—“Dr. Howser's Purple Haze”)

"The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd," (Spec Teleplay--"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Yearns")

1st Prize for Teleplay Writing, University of Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum, Madison,

WI]

"Hill Street Blues" (Spec Teleplay--"Basketball Jones")

"Life Goes On" (Spec Teleplay--"Educating Becca") "

L.A. Law" (Spec Teleplay-"Grace Be Nimble")

"Family Ties" (Spec Teleplay--"It's a Dog-Eat-Dog World")

"Ulrich, The Gallant" (Motion Picture Treatment, Original)

"The Terrible Siren: The Life of Victoria Woodhull" (Motion Picture Treatment, Original)

"Bandstand at West Baden" (Motion Picture Treatment, Original)

"Giovanni's Requiem" (Motion Picture Treatment, Original)

"Vukovich: The Mad Russian " (Motion Picture Treatment, Original)

-Stageplays

Lunch with Aphrodite at the Aristide Hotel –One Act (2024)

Waiting For Beckett: A Piece of Monologue—One Act (2023)

The Real Housewives of Scandinavia—One Act (2021)

Musings from Chairman Trump; or, The Monologue of a Madman (2016)

A Colloquy of Birds—One Act (2010)

Taxing Tales: Three One-Acts (2010)

Van Gogh’s Audit

Superman in America

Bruno Arlt at the Grille Café

Chips, Falling Where They May

Voltaire’s Ashes—One Act (1996)

Ti Amo Lucia Olivetti--Two Act [1st Prize Western Illinois University National

Playwriting Award, Normal, IL] (Rvsd. 2010)

Fellowships/Grants/Awards

2024 Geneva International Film Festival (This is not a Screenplay, short-listed

Best Feature Script)

2024 Catharsis International Film Festival (Of Gold and Ashes Short

listed Best Feature Screenplay

2024 Golden Ribbon International Film Festival (Of Gold and Ashes Short

Listed Best Feature Screenplay)

2024 City Of Arts Film Festival (This is not a Screenplay, short-listed Best Feature Script)

Short listed Best Feature Screenplay

2024 Venice Under the Stars – International Film Festival (This is not a

Screenplay, short-listed Best Feature Script)

2024 Vienna Film Stories (This is not a Screenplay, short-listed Best Feature Script)

2024 Berlin Dynamic Film Festival Of Gold and Ashes Short listed Best Feature

Screenplay)

2024 Pinocchio International Film Festival Malarkey, Lost Among the Florentines

Short listed Best Feature Screenplay)

2024 Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Festival, Portugal (This is not a

Screenplay, short-listed Best Feature Script)

2024 3rd FRANCE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Paris (This is not a Screenplay, shortlisted

Best Feature Script)

2024 Vienna Film Awards, Austria (Of Gold & Ashes, short-listed Best Feature Script)

2024 Costa Brava Film Festival, Spain (Women of a Certain Age, Short List Best Feature

Script)

2023 GIL (SPAIN) INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITING AWARDS (Short List Best Feature

Screenplay, Sherman Oaks, Argentina)

2023 ITALIAN CULTURAL CAPITAL FESTIVAL (Honorable Mention Best Feature Screenplay,

Malarkey, Lost Among the Florentines)

2023 POLISH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Short List Best Feature Screenplay, Of Gold

and Ashes)

2024 GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Short List Best Feature Screenplay,

Malarkey, Lost Among the Florentines)

2023 BRAZIL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Short List Best Feature Screenplay,

Women Of A Certain Age)

2023 PARIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Winner Best Feature Screenplay, This is Not

a Screenplay)

2023 GERMANY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL--BERLIN (Honorable Mention, Best

Screenplay, Of Gold and Ashes)

2023 LONDON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Honorable Mention, Best Screenplay,

Napoleon Awakening, 2023)

2023 ONYKO FILM AWARDS--ODESSA, UKRAINE (Finalist, Best Screenplay, Of Gold &

Ashes, 2023)

2023 BERLIN INTERNATIONAL SCREENWRITING FESTIVAL (Short List, Best

Screenplay, This is Not a Screenplay)

2023 British Indie Festival Film & Music (Short List, Best Screenplay, This is Not a

Screenplay)

Panteion university, Athens (Fulbright Specialist Grant, Awarded May 2024)

EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES & ARTS (Salzburg, Austria, Member, 2018-present)

2021 California Council for the Humanities, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative

Writing

· 2015 River Bend Film Festival, Screenplay, short-listed Best Feature Script

· 2015 Firereel Film Festival, Screenplay, short-listed Best Feature Script

· 2014 Fulbright Fellowship, University of Stockholm, Sweden

· 2014-15 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2014 Williamsburg International Film Festival, Screenplay Honorable Mention

· 2014 Chicago Film Festival, Screenplay Finalist

· 2014 Oregon International Film Festival, Screenplay, 3rd Place

· 2014 Illinois International Film Festival, Screenplay, 1st Place

· 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, University of Stockholm, Sweden

· 2010-2011 Fulbright Fellowship, University of São Paulo, Brazil

· 2008 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2007 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2007 Fulbright Commission, Finalist, Fulbright Fellowship to Berlin.

· 2006 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2005 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2004 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2003-2004 Chapman University, Creative Writing, Sabbatical Leave

· 2003 Mary S. Roberts Foundation, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2001 California Council for the Humanities, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2001 Elizabeth George Foundation, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2000 Elizabeth George Foundation, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 2000 California Council for the Humanities, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 1999 California Council for the Humanities, Grant for John Fowles Center for Creative Writing

· 1996-97 Leverhulme Fellowship in Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England

· 1992-94 Chapman University, Hua-Cheng Wang Fellowship for Creative/Scholarly Writing

· 1993 Scottish Association of Filmmakers, Award in Screenwriting, Edinburgh, Scotland

· 1992 Writers Guild of America-East, Fellowship in Screenwriting, New York, NY

· 1991 Steppenwolf Theatre Company, New Plays Fellowship, Finalist, Chicago, IL

· 1991 London International Film & Video Festival, Silver Seal Award for Screenwriting, London,

England

· 1990 Festival Internacional de Video do Algarve, Nova 90, Bronze Award for Screenwriting,

Algarve, Portugal

· 1990 University of Iowa, Tim McGinnis Award, Best Short Story 1990, Iowa Review, Iowa City, IA

· 1990 University of Wisconsin Screenwriters Forum, National Teleplay Award, Madison, WI

· 1989-90 Edinburgh University, Leverhulme Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Edinburgh, Scotland

· 1989 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, Finalist,

Los Angeles, CA

· 1988 Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, Finalist,

Los Angeles, CA

· 1988 University of Minnesota, Educational Development Grant

· 1988 University of Minnesota, Comparative Literature Dissertation Fellowship

· 1987 University of Minnesota, Comparative Literature Research Grant

· 1987 Writers Guild of America-East, Fellowship in Screenwriting, Finalist, New York, NY

· 1987 University of Minnesota, Special Doctoral Grant

· 1986 University of Minnesota, Harold Leonard Film Studies Grant

· 1986 Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Fiction Writing, Cassis, France

· 1986 Maxwell Perkins Award for Fiction Writing, Finalist, New York, NY

· 1986 Sundance Institute Fellowship for Screenwriting, Finalist, Burbank, CA

· 1985 Bush Foundation Fellowship for Fiction Writing, Finalist, St. Paul, MN

· 1984 Sundance Institute Fellowship for Screenwriting, Finalist, Burbank, CA

· 1984 Western Illinois University National Playwriting Award, Normal, IL

· 1982 Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Fiction Writing, Cassis, France

· 1981 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant in Fiction, Finalist, St. Paul, MN

· 1978 Oxford University, International Institute of Education Fulbright Scholarship

· 1976 Alliance Française National Literary Essay Award, First Prize, New York, NY

· 1976 Indiana University Experimental Fiction Writing Award, Bloomington, IN

· 1975 Alliance Française National Literary Essay Award, Second Prize, New York, NY

· 1974 Alliance Française National Literary Essay Award, Second Prize, New York, NY

For almost three decades he has been the Director of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing for

which he has received 4 National Endowment Arts Grants and a California Humanities Grant. He is a

two-time recipient of a United Kingdom Leverhulme Fellowship for Creative Writing (University of

East Anglia, Edinburgh University), a three-time recipient of the Alliance Française National Writing

Award, has written over 20 works of fiction including the Castles Trilogy Cardboard Castles (Pacific

Writers Press, 1996); Cloud Castles (Pacific Writers Press, 1998); and Capital Castles (Pacific Writers

Press, 2000), and Bombay California; or Hollywood, Somewhere West of Vine (Pacific Writers Press,

1994) and Borges’ Travel, Hemingway’s Garage (fc2, 2005) which was published in fall, ’09 in Spanish

by Thule Ediciones, Barcelona as Viajes Borges, Talleres Hemingway as well as Balzac’s CoDee,

DaVinci’s Ristorante (Verbivoracious Press, 2017). His latest novel, The Mad Diary of Malcolm

Malarkey (Dalkey 2023) is the first in a septology of Malarkey novels including: The Fall and Rise of

Malcolm Malarkey; Malarkey’s Way; Malarkey, Lost Among the Parisians; Malarkey, Lost Among the

Greeks; Malarkey, Lost Among the Argentines; Malarkey, Lost Among the Florentines; Malarkey, Lost

Among the Romans and Malarkey in Love. His latest novels include, Aleatory; or, A Day in the Life of

Jürgen Jürgensen, Imaginary Cartographer A Novel in Four Cities; The Checks and Balances of Alfie

Schiller; Proost’s Grocery: A Novel in 14 Aisles; The Sorrows of Seymour Schreibman and the short

story collection, Kissing Sonia Braga and Other Tales.

A partial listing of his other fiction writing includes: his Pan-Euro-American trilogy titled, The

Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash, based on the character Braz Cubas created by the 19th

century Brazilian novelist, Machado de Assis, has been anthologized in The Reading Room/4

published by Great Marsh Press. In addition to Borges’ Travel, Hemingway’s Garage which received

excellent reviews in the New York Times, the Georgia Review and Publisher’s Weekly, among others,

he has written three other additional Secret Histories including: Nietzsche’s Café, Axel’s Charhouse

and Bartleby’s Books, Gatsby’s Café. He has written other short fiction as well including Dante’s Foil

&Other Sporting Tales and The Apotheosis of Aaron. He has been published in numerous national

and international literary journals including the Iowa Review and the New York Quarterly and was a

contributor to the former New York avant-garde magazine, Splash Magazine. Among the awards he

has won for his fiction include: the Tim McGinnis Award (University of Iowa);Camargo Foundation

Fellowship in Fiction Writing, Cassis, France (2);the Maxwell Perkins Award for Fiction Writing, New

York, NY; a Bush Foundation Fellowship for Fiction Writing, St. Paul, MN; and an Award for

Experimental Writing (Indiana University).

He has also won an award from Western Illinois University for his play, Ti Amo Lucia Olivetti and has

completed a trilogy of new one-act plays titled. Taxing Tales, that includes: Van Gogh’s Audit,

Superman in America and Bruno Arlt at the Grille Café. His latest play is titled, Waiting for Beckett,

based on his meetings and correspondence with Beckett over a number of years. He has translated

three works: Xavier de Maistre’s novella, Un voyage autour de ma chambre, Balzac’s play, Mercadet,

and Baudelaire’s novella, La Fanfarlo. He is currently at work on a book of memoirs titled,

Posthumous Papers of a Living Writer, which includes reminiscences on people from Beckett to

Borges, David Letterman to August Wilson. His critical books include, The Politics of Style in the

Fiction of Balzac, Beckett and Cortázar (Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 1990);and The Poetics of Novels

(Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 1999) and a series of literary essays published by Macmillan.

From 2005-2007 he was a judge on the Fulbright Commissions Panel for Creative Writing from 2005-

2007. In spring, 2002, he was honored as a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Pitzer College,

Claremont, CA and was a featured speaker at the Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series at San Diego

State University in October 2003. In 2005, he was a guest professor of Creative Writing-Fiction at

Pomona College, Claremont, CA and was invited to return in spring, 2006. In June 2005, he was

invited to teach at the 65th Annual Indiana University Writers Conference in Bloomington. In

November 2008, he was invited by the Museum of Latin American Art, Buenos Aires, to participate in

the 1st Annual FILBA International Literary Festival there where he read from his fiction and sat on a

panel devoted to creative writing. For a decade, he was a regular political blogger for the

HuhingtonPost.com and his non-fiction and reviews have appeared in such periodicals and

magazines as the Times Literary Supplement, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, the American

Book Review, OC Weekly, Irish America, MSP Magazine, Indianapolis Monthly, Playboy and others.

He is a practicing screenwriter and has won awards for his writing from the Academy of Motion

Picture Arts and Sciences; the Writers Guild of America, East; the Screenwriters Forum (University of

Wisconsin);and the Sundance Institute. He has written over twenty screenplays and teleplays and

his adaptation and co-production of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “An Author’s Mother” won awards from the

Scottish Association of Filmmakers, the London International Film &Video Festival, and the Festival

Internacional de Video do Algarve, Portugal. He has taught or conducted screenwriting seminars and

workshops throughout Latin America, Europe, and the United Kingdom as well as the United States

including stints at: the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba [the

school founded by García Márquez];the Goethe Institute, Santiago, Chile (with Antonio Skármeta

[author of Il Postino]);with both SICA, the Cinematographer’s Union of Argentina, and Proyectos

Culturales in Buenos Aires;at the National Film School of Denmark, Copenhagen;the University of

Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland; the Grimme Akadamie, Cologne; the Flemish Film Academy,

University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; PILOTS,

Barcelona, Spain; Edinburgh University, Scotland; the University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires; the

University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Columbia College, Chicago; Independent Features North,

Minneapolis; Western Washington University, Bellingham; Elmira College, Elmira, NY; Azusa Pacific

University, Azusa, CA; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Paris Writers Workshop, Paris. For four

years, he was a regular visiting adjunct professor of screenwriting at the Hamburg Media School,

Hamburg, Germany.

In May 2006, he was invited by the United States Embassy, Berlin to speak on screenwriting and to

conduct screenwriting lectures at a number of German universities in Munich, Berlin, Leipzig and

Cologne among other places. From 2006-2010, he had been invited annually to lecture at UNIACC in

Santiago, Chile and PEN International asked him to be the lead judge for the 2006 Best Original

Screenplay Award in Los Angeles. In August 2008 he was invited to teach at ARCOS Film School in

Santiago, Chile at the invitation of the United States Embassy, Santiago and also gave film lectures

in Buenos Aires at the invitation of the United States Embassy, Buenos Aires. In September 2008 he

was invited by UNIACC Film School, Santiago, to participate in a major Latin American screenwriting

conference sponsored by IBERMEDIA. Most recent, he was invited to be a screenwriting mentor at

Hatchfest 2010 in Bozeman, Montana where he also lectured at Montana State University.

His film books include: Aspects of the Screenplay (Heinemann, 2001); Character &Conflict:

Cornerstones of Screenwriting (Heinemann, 2004); I Read It at the Movies: Screen Adaptation

(Heinemann, 2006) and his fourth book titled, Constructing Dialogue: From Citizen Kane to Midnight

in Paris (Continuum, 2013). In December 2009 he was awarded a 2010 Fulbright Fellowship to teach

screenwriting at the University of São Paulo, Brazil in August 2010 & in August 2011 and he has been

awarded other Fulbrights to teach screenwriting at the University of Stockholm, Aarhus University

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