Faculty
Greg Hrbek
Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
Phone: 518-580-8398
Email: ghrbek@skidmore.edu
Office: Palamountain Hall 310
Education:
- B.A., Vassar College
- M.F.A., Iowa
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)
Fellowship:
- Alfred Hodder Fellowship (Princeton University)
- US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship (Japan-United States Friendship Commission/National Endowment for the Arts)