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.