Douglas Trevor

DOUGLAS TREVOR is the author of the short story collection The Book of Wonders (SixOneSeven Books, 2017), the novel Girls I Know (SixOneSeven Books, 2013), which won the 2013 Balcones Fiction Prize, the short story collection The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (University of Iowa Press, 2005), which received the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was named a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction, and The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2004).  His academic work has appeared in Shakespeare Studies, Montaigne Studies, Milton Studies, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Studies in English Literature, and a number of different anthologies and collections. His fiction has been published in Ploughshares Solos, The Iowa Review, The Notre Dame Review, The Minnesota Review, and New Letters. He has also had stories in The Paris Review, Glimmer Train, Epoch, Black Warrior Review, The New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and more than a dozen other publications. His short fiction has been anthologized in—among other places—The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Among his various honors, Trevor has been named the Theodore Morrison Fellow in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and served twice as a writer-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation. He holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton, where he worked with Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison, and a PhD in Renaissance Literature from Harvard. He also teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels on early modern literature, particularly the works of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton.