Perry Glasser

Perry Glasser (born 1948 in Brooklyn, New York) is a novelist, short story writer, memoirist, essayist, and teacher. In 2012, he was named a Fellow of the Massachusetts Cultural Council for Creative Nonfiction.[1] He currently lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Glasser's five books are:

• metamemoirs, ISBN 9781937402457, a collection of 17 memoir/essays published by Outpost19 in 2012.
• Riverton Noir, ISBN 1928589758, a novel that received the Gival Press Novel Award in 2011;[2]
• Dangerous Places, ISBN 1-886157-69-3, received the 2008 G.S Sharat Chandra Prize from BkMk Press a collection of short fiction in which "fear and dread transform" [3] the "world weary" [4] characters;
• Singing on the Titanic ISBN 0-252-01427-8, admired for "both bleakness and beauty, of denial and desire," [5] appeared from the University of Illinois Press in 1985;
• Suspicious Origins ISBN 0898230497 received the Minnesota Voices Competition First Prize from New Rivers Press in 1983.

More than 50 of his short stories and memoirs have appeared in anthologies and such journals as Boulevard, The Antioch Review, TriQuarterly, and North American Review, for which he serves as a Contributing Editor.[6]

Glasser has been a fellow in residence at Yaddo, The Ucross Foundation, The Norman Mailer House, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His writing awards include three P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Prizes.

His critical reviews and essays have appeared The New York Times Book Review', The New York Times Opinion page, Chicago Tribune Books, and The Boston Globe. His column, "Virtual View," identifying cultural implications of the emerging Internet, ran from 1995 until 2000 in North American Review.