Douglas Trevor

Douglas Trevor is the author of the novel Girls I Know (SixOneSeven Books, 2013), which won the 2013 Balcones Fiction Prize, and the short story collection The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (Iowa Writers Workshop Press, 2005), which received the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was named a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction. His short stories have appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Black Warrior Review, Epoch, Fugue, The Notre Dame Review, The Minnesota Review, Glimmer Train, The New England Review, Midwestern Gothic, and The Ontario Review. His work has also been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is currently at work on completing another collection of stories, and has work forthcoming in The Iowa Review and Ploughshares Solos. Trevor has also begun his second novel, a chapter from which appeared in New Letters last year. The novel is set in Denver and revolves around the central character's discovery of a string of secrets about his family, his city, and himself. Trevor received a BA from Princeton University and a PhD from Harvard. He also teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels on early modern literature, particularly the works of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton.