Lysley Tenorio: Background information when reading Monstress

Lysley Tenorio

This article relates to Monstress

Lysley Tenorio (pronounced LESS-lee ten-OH-rio) is the winner of several awards, including the Whiting Writers' Award, the Nelson Algren Award, and a Pushcart Prize - and fellowships from Phillip Exeter Academy, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the University of Wisconsin, and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He earned his MFA at the University of Oregon, and received a National Endowment for the Arts in 2006. His stories have appeared in The Best New American Voices, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, Manoa and The Atlantic. Born in the Philippines, Tenorio moved to the US as an infant. He lives in San Francisco and is on the faculty of St. Mary's College in California.

Click on the video below to hear Lysley talk about his beginnings as a writer:

Or visit the KQED Arts page to hear Lysley read the entirety of his short story "Monstress". (Total running time 35:53.)

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This article relates to Monstress. It first ran in the February 16, 2012 issue of BookBrowse Recommends.