Caitlin Horrocks lives in Michigan, by way of Ohio, Arizona, England, Finland, and the Czech Republic. Her stories and essays have appeared in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Epoch, and other journals. Her work has been short-listed in Best American Short Stories and has won awards from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences and The Atlantic Monthly. She was formerly the 2006-2007 Theresa A. Wilhoit Fellow at Arizona State University and the prose editor of Hayden's Ferry Review. Things she loves that have shown up in her fiction: reality television, zoos, otters, snow, sleep. Things that haven't (yet): bread, koalas, hockey, West Michigan beer, and Bananagrams. Currently, she is an assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For more information, please visit her website at www.caitlinhorrocks.com.
This biography was last updated on 07/01/2011.
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