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| Literary Biography |
Philip F. Deaver
Associate Professor of English
Rollins College Writer in Residence
Philip F. Deaver is the 13th winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and his book is Silent Retreats.
He has held fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and Bread Loaf. His work, which can be found mostly in the literary magazines,
has appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and has been recognized in Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Many of his
current stories are set in a fictionalized version of his hometown, Tuscola, Illinois. His story “Lowell and the Rolling Thunder” came out in
the Kenyon Review in summer, ’06. He also writes poetry. His poems have appeared in magazines such as The Reaper, Poetry Miscellany, and the
Florida Review and are collected in a new volume, How Men Pray, just out from Anhinga Press. Philip Deaver is Associate Professor of English
and permanent Writer in Residence at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. In
addition, he teaches on the fiction faculty in the Spalding University brief residency MFA program, Louisville, KY. In recent years, he has published memoir and creative nonfiction with
work appearing in Creative Nonfiction, From the Edge of the Prairie, and the inaugural issue of New Madrid.
He has recently edited a book of creative nonfiction essays on baseball, entitled Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball
(University of Nebraska Press).
Honors and
Awards
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, 1986
- Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, 1988 ("Arcola Girls")
- Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1989
- Best American Short Stories, 1995, 100 Distinguished Stories of 1994 ("Forty Martyrs")
- Pushcart Prize XX, Special Mention ("The Underlife")
- "Arcola Girls," optioned for American Playhouse,1989
- "Geneseo," anthologized in New Horizons, anthology of Florida Fiction, Arbiter Press, 1989
- Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, 1991
- "Fossils," poem anthologized in Florida in Poetry, Eds. Jones and O'Sullivan, Pineapple Press, 1995
- "Forty Martyrs," anthologized in The Orlando Group and Friends -- Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction from
Central Florida, Arbiter Press, 2001
- “Flying” and “The Worrier’s Guild,” poems from How Men Pray, read by Garrison Keillor on Writers Almanac, August 2005
- “Geneseo” and “Silent Retreats,” stories from the Flannery O’Connor Award winning collection Silent Retreats, anthologized in
Best American Catholic Short Stories, Eds. McVeigh and Schnapp, Ward and Sheed, 2006
- On the 20th anniversary of its publication, Silent Retreats, Philip’s Flannery winner, will roll over to paperback,
University of Georgia Press
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