A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Greg Hrbek has received a James Michener Fellowship from the Michener-Copernicus Society, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a Creative Artists' Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts' Japan-US Friendship Commission. He has written two novels The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly and Not on Fire, but Burning, and a collection of stories, Destroy All Monsters. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Tin House, and numerous literary journals, and in The Best American Short Stories anthology. He is the recipient of the James Jones First Novel Award and the Prairie Schooner Prize in Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction. He is Writer-in-Residence at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.
“Sharp and trenchant…An impressive achievement.” (Charles Yu, New York Times Book Review)
MOST ANTICIPATED: BUZZFEED, THE MILLIONS, GQ, KQED / STARRED KIRKUS REVIEW / NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR / NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE / LONGLISTED FOR THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE
THE HINDENBURG CRASHES NIGHTLY
“A poignant novel of love and loss.” (Baltimore Sun) / “A compelling story of obsessed passion” (San Francisco Examiner)
STARRED KIRKUS REVIEW / JAMES JONES FIRST NOVEL AWARD
“Hrbek's first collection subtly and masterfully merges the everyday and the mythic, poetic, futuristic, and seemingly impossible." (Booklist)
PRAIRIE SCHOONER PRIZE / LIBRARY JOURNAL 10 BEST STORY COLLECTIONS OF 2011
