Clifford Garstang
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Clifford Garstang

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Clifford Garstang's latest novel, THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, is forthcoming in February 2024. His novel in stories, WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, received the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. (Previous winners of the award include Barbara Kingsolver, Lee Smith, Richard Bausch, and Carrie Brown.) He is also the author of a prize-winning story collection, IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, and editor of the anthology series, EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET. His novel, THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY, was published in 2019 by Braddock Avenue Books. His most recent story collection is HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES. His second novel, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, was published in 2021. Garstang grew up in the Midwest and received a BA from Northwestern University. After serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Korea, he earned an MA in English and a JD, both from Indiana University, and practiced international law in Singapore, Chicago, and Los Angeles with one of the largest law firms in the United States. Subsequently, he earned an MPA in International Development from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and worked for Harvard Law School as a legal reform consultant in Almaty, Kazakhstan. From 1996 to 2001, he was Senior Counsel for East Asia at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., where his work concentrated on China, Indonesia and Vietnam. Garstang received an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte in 2003. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, The Ledge, The Baltimore Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Potomac Review and elsewhere, and has received Distinguished Mention in the Best American Series. He won the 2006 Confluence Fiction Prize and the 2007 GSU Review Fiction Prize and is a Fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He currently lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
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