Lysley A. Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer.
Lysley Tenorio's stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and the Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Born in Olongapo, Philippines, he lives in San Francisco, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary's College of California.
He is currently working on a novel.
Awards
2000 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University 2002 Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction 2006 Pushcart Prize for "The Brothers" 2006 NEA FellowshipNational Endowment For The Arts: Writers' Corner - Lysley Tenorio 2008 Whiting Award 2013 Edmund White Award"Going for the Silver". Gay City News, May 8, 2013. 2014 The Paris Review Writer-In-Residence at The Standard Hotel"Writer's NYC Retreat". The Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2013. 2015 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2020 James Merrill House FellowshipJames Merrill House 2020 New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research in the US
Works Novel
Short story collections (Thesis/Dissertation manuscript)
Short stories
Anthology appearances
References
External links
Profile at The Whiting Foundation "Lysley Tenorio", KQED "interview with Lysley Tenorio", San Francisco Examiner, July 29, 2009, Alegria Garcia