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 R. Clifton SpargoR. Clifton Spargo is a Chicago-based fiction writer and critic and also literary advisor to The Voices and Faces Project. He is currently an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has held appointments as a Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, Professor of English at Marquette University, and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Yale University. A recent finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction for a sequence of stories on a survivor of sexual violence, he has published and edited several books, including, The Ethics of Mourning and Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death, and (with Robert M. Ehrenreich) After Representation?: The Holocaust, Literature, and Culture. His stories have appeared recently in journals such as The Antioch Review, FICTION, Glimmer Train, SOMA, and The Kenyon Review. And his essays, reviews, and opinion pieces on topics ranging from contemporary rock music, literature, and culture to violence against women have appeared in venues such as The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Yale Review, Commonweal, Raritan, and New City. He has served as a Pearl Resnick Fellow and a Leon Milman Memorial Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and, additionally, has held several other prestigious fellowships. Visit his author’s website at rcliftonspargo.com to learn more about his work. |