Talk:ZZ Packer

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ZZ Packer (born January 12, 1973) is an American author, notable for her works of short fiction. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and Louisville, Kentucky. Recognized as a talented writer at an early age, her first significant publication was in Seventeen magazine at the age of 19.

Packer attended Yale University, where she received a B.A in 1994. Her graduate work included an M.A. at Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa in 1999. She was then named a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.

Shortly thereafter, she entered the national literary scene with a high-profile appearance in the Debut Fiction issue of The New Yorker (2000). Her short story in the issue became the title story in her collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Riverhead Books, 2003), which was published to considerable acclaim. As Publishers Weekly put it, "this debut short story collection is getting the highest of accolades from the New York Times, Harper's, the New Yorker and most every other branch of the literary criticism tree. " [1] The book was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, a New York Times Notable Book, and personally selected by John Updike for the Today Show Book Club.

She currently lives in Pacifica, California, a coastal town near San Francisco. In 2005 she was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction. She is on the faculty of California College of the Arts, where she serves as Senior Visiting Professor of Creative Writing.

Free image?

There's a free image on flickr, but is it him? --Magnus Manske 14:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

West Coast personality?

This characterization of a West Coast personality is defined only in contrast to a 'more serious East-Coast type personality,' of which Paris Hilton, native New Yorker, must be an exemplar.

If Packer herself wrote this sentence, then I'm puzzled. Seems sophomoric. If this is the opinion of one of her fans, it doesn't help us understand Packer whatsoever. We non-serious West Coasters (some of us ex-East Coasters by the way) are confused.

Delete the lame generalization. It doesn't even merit the term stereotype. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.127.54.67 (talk) 23:51, 19 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Works?

Can we add a list of her complete works? This would aid in ease of access to her works for readers and provide them with a way of quickly viewing her works after reading the article.

Stevethebob (talk) 04:06, 6 February 2019 (UTC)Stevethebob[reply]