Christopher Barzak

Christopher Barzak is an American author. He has published many short stories, beginning with "A Mad Tea Party" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet in 1999. In 2007 he published his debut novel, One for Sorrow, which has won the 2008 Crawford Fantasy Award for best first book, and is a nominee for the 2008 Great Lakes Book Award. He has also worked as a teacher outside of Tokyo. Currently, he teaches fiction writing at Youngstown State Universit... more

Christopher Barzak is an American author. He has published many short stories, beginning with "A Mad Tea Party" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet in 1999. In 2007 he published his debut novel, One for Sorrow, which has won the 2008 Crawford Fantasy Award for best first book, and is a nominee for the 2008 Great Lakes Book Award. He has also worked as a teacher outside of Tokyo. Currently, he teaches fiction writing at Youngstown State University, in Youngstown, Ohio. Barzak is pursuing his M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. less