Pauls Toutonghi

Pauls Toutonghi was born in Seattle, Washington, on July 4,
1976.

His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, One Story
Magazine, The Boston Review, Glimmer Train, Book Magazine,
Terminus, and other small periodicals. He received a
Pushcart Prize for his short story, "Regeneration," which
appeared in The Boston Review in 2000, when Pauls was
twenty-three.

His first novel, Red Weather, was published by Random House
on May 23, 2006. It has been receiving good reviews in
periodicals across the country.

His other writing has appeared in Sports Illustrated, The
Crab Creek Review, and The Yemen Observer. He is a mongrel
-- half-Latvian and half-Egyptian. His earliest memories are
steeped in linguistic confusion.

He received his MFA in poetry and his PhD in English
literature from Cornell University.

In order to support his writing habit, Pauls has worked as a
burrito roller, a pizza delivery driver, a waiter in a
retirement community, a vendor of vintage baseball jerseys,
a project editor for Atlantic Coast Jet, a telemarketer, a
sandwich maker, a college professor, a shipping clerk in a
medical supply store, and a research assistant for the
Complete Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson.

He lives in Brooklyn, where the beauty and ugliness of the
city are simultaneously evident. Also, the brisket
sandwiches are unbelievable.