John BIGUENET

John Biguenet is the widely acclaimed author of The Torturer’s Apprentice: Stories and Oyster, a novel, as well as seven other books, including The Rising Water Trilogy and Silence. His work has appeared in such magazines as The Atlantic, Granta, Esquire, Image, Mr Porter, The New Republic, North American Review, Playboy, One Story, Tin House, and Zoetrope, as well as in many anthologies. His award-winning plays include The Vulgar Soul, Rising Water, Shotgun, Mold, and Night Train, which was developed at the National Theatre in London. Broomstick, his new play written entirely in heroic couplets, will have its sixth production this year. An O. Henry Award winner for his short fiction and a New York Times guest columnist, he is the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans.

Time at PAA: 2005