Manuel Munoz
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Manuel Muñoz (born March 4, 1972 Dinuba, California) is an award-winning Mexican American novelist, short story writer, and professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona.
Writing career
Muoz' early writing appeared in numerous journals, including Rush Hour, Swink, Epoch, Glimmer Train, Edinburgh Review, and Boston Review. Zigzagger, his first collection of short stories, was published in 2003. The bulk of the stories in this first tome are set in California's rural towns, which look like his hometown of Dinuba. Muoz has said that the Central Valley has served as a "reservoir of ingenuity" for him. "Muoz has produced a wholly true picture of modern California," David Ebershoff said in a Los Angeles Times article, "one that has nothing to do with coastlines, cities, or silicon. [Zigzagger] heralds the arrival of a gifted and sensitive writer." "Zigzagger is not limited to Latina/o letters, but rather a major breakthrough," Helena Marramontes wrote.
For the 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, his second collection of short fiction, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, was shortlisted. The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue takes place in a small community in the Central Valley, like Zigzagger. "His stories are much too rich to be described in "gay" or "Chicano" fiction's limiting rubrics, according to Jeff Turrentine of The New York Times; they have a softly glowing, melancholy beauty that transcends those categories and makes them universal."
Muoz's first book, What You See In The Dark (2011), takes you from the Central Valley's familiar rural setting to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in 1950s Bakersfield, California. To hook his reader, Muoz introduces the second individual singular. What You See In The Dark a "stellar first novel," according to a starred review in Publishers Weekly. [...] The lyrical prose and sensitive portrayal of the crime's ripple effect in the tiny community put it above the average noir.
Awards
- 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 2007 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlisted
- 2008 Whiting Award
- 2009 PEN/O. Henry Award for his story "Tell Him About Brother John."
- 2015 PEN/O. Henry Award for his story "The Happiest Girl in the USA."
- 2017 PEN/O. Henry Award for his story "The Reason Is Because"
- The Best American Short Stories 2019 includes "Anyone Can Do It"
- New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship