Padgett Powell

Padgett Powell has taught
writing at UF since 1984. He has published four novels and two collections
of short stories, his latest the novel Mrs. Hollingsworth’s
Men (Houghton-Mifflin.) His fiction and non-fiction have appeared
in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Paris
Review, Grand Street, Esquire,

The New York Times Book Review and Magazine, and
Oxford American; and has been anthologized in Best
American Short Stories and Best American Sportswriting.
The winner of the Prix de Rome and a Whiting Writers Award, he has
also taught at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and currently teaches
at the Summer Literary Seminars, St. Petersburg, Russia.