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Biography Jonathan Papernick was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He lived in Israel during the mid 1990s, working as a journalist in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He later studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York and received his MFA in fiction. His first collection of short stories The Ascent of Eli Israel was published by Arcade Publishing in 2002 and received a full-page review in the New York Times and a starred review in Publishers Weekly. His first novel entitled, Who by Fire, Who by Blood was published by Exile Editions in 2007. The Jerusalem Report called it "...a fast-paced thriller ...frightening ...a finely drawn picture of a human being unraveling." His second collection of short stories There is No Other will be published by Exile Editions in the spring of 2010. Author Dara Horn wrote about There is No Other, "Every single story here delivers a knock-out punch that will leave you reeling long after you've put it down -- and revising your thinking on what life and love really mean." He is currently at work adapting Who by Fire, Who by Blood into a graphic novel with artist Sandy Jimenez. He recently completed his second novel Sharpy, which follows a would-be con-man’s picaresque journey as a fugitive after he sells the Brooklyn Bridge to an Iraq War widow and becomes a national media villain. Papernick's short fiction has appeared in publications such as Exile, The Sarah Lawrence Review, The Reading Room, Nerve.com, Memorious, Zeek, Night Train Magazine, Confrontation, and the anthologies Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge, and Scribblers on the Roof. Papernick has taught fiction writing at Pratt Institute, Brandeis University, Bar Ilan University, Grub Street Writers and BIMA at Brandeis University. Papernick is currently Writer-in Residence at Emerson College. He lives outside Boston with his wife and sons. Jonathan Papernick on Facebook |
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