Edward
Falco Biography
American author. His novel Wolf
Point and short stories Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha
were both published by Unbridled Books in 2005. Falco’s
In the Park of Culture, a collection of short fictions from The University
of Notre Dame Press also came out that year.
Books
Edward Falco's
most recent books are Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and
Selected Stories, from Unbridled Books (2005); Wolf Point, a novel,
also from Unbridled (2005) and In the Park of Culture, a collection of
short fictions from The University of Notre Dame Press (2005)
. His earlier books include the novel Winter in Florida (Soho, 1990), the hypertext novel, A Dream with Demons
(Eastgate Systems, 1997), the hypertext poetry
collection, Sea Island (Eastgate Systems,
1995), and a chapbook of prose poem, Concert in the Park of Culture
(Tamarack, 1985), as well as two collections of short stories: Acid
(Notre Dame, 1996) and Plato at Scratch Daniel's & Other Stories
(University of Arkansas Press, 1990).
Acid won the 1995 Richard Sullivan Prize from the University of
Notre Dame, and was a finalist for The Patterson Prize. He has won a number of
other prizes and awards for his fiction, including the Emily Clark Balch Prize
for Short Fiction from The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Mishima Prize for Innovative Fiction from The Saint
Andrews Review, a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers' Conference,
two Individual Artist's Fellowships from the Virginia Commission for the Arts,
and The Governor's Award for the Screenplay from The Virginia Festival of
American Film.
His stories have been
published widely in journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy,
and TriQuarterly, and collected in the Best
American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize, and several anthologies, including,
Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium . An early
innovator in the field of digital writing{fact}, Falco's literary and experimental hypertexts are taught in
universities internationally. His online work includes Self-Portrait as
Child w/Father (Iowa Review Web), Circa 1967-1968
(Eastgate Reading Room), and "Charmin'
Cleary" (Eastgate Reading Room). Falco's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal
of literature and the arts.
As a playwright, Falco is the
author of Home Delivery, which won the Hampden-Sydney Playwriting Award
and was subsequently staged by the Hampden-Sydney Theater Department. Earlier
versions of the play were given staged readings in Mill Mountain Theater's
Centerpiece and Theater B reading series. Two plays, Sabbath Night in the
Church of the Piranha and Radon, premiered in university productions
at Virginia Tech. Both were directed by David Johnson. In the summer of 2001,
Falco worked with artists and actors from the United States, England, Greece, Bosnia,
and Germany in an international theatre project meant to explore the healing
power of drama. Scenes from The Cretans, a play developed during the project,
were presented for a small audience in an amphitheatre on the Aegean in the
village of Kolympari, Crete. His most recent plays
are Welcome to Castle in the Air, and Possum Dreams, the latter
of which was included in Ensemble Studio Theater's Octoberfest
2004.
Edward Falco
lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he teaches writing and literature in Virginia
Tech's MFA program, and edits The New River, an online journal of
digital writing. Edward is the uncle of Edie Falco, an American actress,
perhaps most famous for her role of Carmela Soprano on the cable TV drama The
Sopranos.
1. ^ "Notre Dame Press: Falco, Edward: In
the Park of Culture". Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
Wikipedia, source.
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