Courtney Angela Brkic (born 1972) is a Croatian American memoirist, short story writer, and academic.
Courtney Angela Brkic | |
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| Born | 1972 (age 51–52) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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| Nationality | Croatian American |
| Education | Yorktown High School College of William & Mary New York University (MFA) |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (2003) |
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Early life edit
Brkic is a native of Washington, D.C. who grew up in Arlington, Virginia and graduated from Yorktown High School. She graduated from the College of William & Mary with a major in anthropology and a minor in Hispanic Studies. Before earning her MFA from New York University, Brkic lived in Bosnia, Croatia, and the Netherlands.[1]
Career edit
In 1996, at the age of 23, she went to eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of a Physicians for Human Rights forensic team. She spent a month helping to exhume and identify the bodies of thousands of men and boys who were massacred by Serb forces the year before.[2] She went on to work as a summary translator for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
She has taught creative writing at New York University, the Cooper Union, and Kenyon College, where she held the Richard L. Thomas Chair in Creative Writing in 2006.[3][4] She teaches at George Mason University, and lives in New York City with her husband, Phil.[5]
Awards edit
- 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Grant
- 2003 Whiting Award for Fiction and Nonfiction [6]
- Fulbright Scholarship to research women in Croatia's war-affected population
- New York Times Fellowship.
Works edit
Books edit
- Stillness. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003. ISBN 978-0-374-26999-9.
- The Stone Fields: An Epitaph for the Living. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004. ISBN 978-0-374-20774-8. reprint. Picador. 2005. ISBN 978-0-312-42439-8.
- The First Rule of Swimming. Little, Brown and Company. 2013. ISBN 978-0-31621-738-5.
Translations edit
- A.B. Simic (April 2002). Modern Poetry in Translation 18. Translator Courtney Angela Brkic. King's College. ISBN 978-0-9533824-4-6. Archived from the original on 2007-07-31. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
Short stories edit
- "Adiyo, Kerido". Zoetrope: All-Story. 7 (2). Summer 2003. Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
- "Departure". Kenyon Review. 28 (2): 4–10. Spring 2006.
- "the offering". North American Review. 290 (6): 30–33. Dec 2006.
- "Gathering Up the Gods". Missouri Review. 29 (4): 42–57. Winter 2006. doi:10.1353/mis.2007.0035. S2CID 162189911.[7]
Essays edit
- "Smoldering". Washington Post Magazine: W21. 16 January 2005.
References edit
- ^ Birnbaum, Robert (May 24, 2005). "Courtney Angela Brkic". Identity Theory.
- ^ "Courtney Angela Brkic - Identity Theory". 24 May 2005. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Thomas Chair - News Room - Kenyon College". Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
- ^ "The Richard L. Thomas Chair in Creative Writing - Kenyon College". Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
- ^ "Faculty and Staff: Courtney Angela Brkic". Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Courtney A. Brkic - WHITING AWARDS". Retrieved 28 August 2016.
- ^ "Faculty and Staff: Courtney Angela Brkic". Retrieved 28 August 2016.