ZZ Packer

ZZ Packer has been a high-school teacher and barmaid (though not at the same time). A graduate of Yale University, she received Masters degrees from Johns Hopkins and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her collection of short stories, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Canongate/Riverhead Books), was a New York Times Notable Book, winner of a Commonwealth Club Fiction Award and an Alex Award and a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's and Zoetrope, while her non-fiction has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review and Salon. She has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, son, and her naughty miniature Pinscher, Punky. 'Buffalo Soldiers' is taken from her novel-in-progress, The Thousands.

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July 20 9:42

The first few paragraphs seem quite generic i.e. "razor sharp" and devoid of any fresh description, which might work if it was in the first person and the narrator's character was supposed to be cliche ridden and boring. I guess I would have to read at least 20 pages to come to any conclusions but if they are anything like this, well...