Jacob M. Appel Bio & Contact Page
Jacob M. Appel
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://jacobmappel.com
I am glad to provide complimentary paper and/or electronic copies of most of these works for potential reviewers.
Books:
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (novel), Cargo, 2012.
The Biology of Luck (novel), Elephant Rock, 2013.
Wedding Wipeout (mystery novel), Cozy Cat Press, 2013.
Scouting for the Reaper (stories), Black Lawrence, 2014.
Phoning Home (essays), University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
Upcoming:
Einstein's Beach House (stories), Pressgang, 2014.
Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets (stories), Black Lawrence, 2015.
Bio:
Jacob M. Appel’s first novel, The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, won the 2012 Dundee International Book Award and was published by Cargo. Jacob’s short story collection, Scouting for the Reaper, won the Hudson Prize and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. His short fiction has appeared in more than two hundred leading literary
journals including Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Raritan, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and West Branch. His prose has won the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William
Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story, the Dana Award, the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, the North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Missouri Review’s Editor’s Prize, the Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize, the Briar Cliff Review’s Short Fiction Prize, the Salem College Center for Women Writers’ Reynolds Price Short
Fiction Award, the H. E. Francis Prize, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award on four separate occasions, an Elizabeth George Fellowship and a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Grant. His stories have been short-listed for the O. Henry Award (2001), Best American Short Stories (2007, 2008), Best American Nonrequired Reading
(2007, 2008), and the Pushcart Prize anthology (2005, 2006, 2011). Jacob holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Brown, an M.S. in bioethics from the Alden March Bioethics Institute of Albany Medical College, an M.A. and an M.Phil. from Columbia, an M.D. from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, an M.F.A. from N.Y.U. and a J.D.
from Harvard Law School.
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://jacobmappel.com
I am glad to provide complimentary paper and/or electronic copies of most of these works for potential reviewers.
Books:
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (novel), Cargo, 2012.
The Biology of Luck (novel), Elephant Rock, 2013.
Wedding Wipeout (mystery novel), Cozy Cat Press, 2013.
Scouting for the Reaper (stories), Black Lawrence, 2014.
Phoning Home (essays), University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
Upcoming:
Einstein's Beach House (stories), Pressgang, 2014.
Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets (stories), Black Lawrence, 2015.
Bio:
Jacob M. Appel’s first novel, The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, won the 2012 Dundee International Book Award and was published by Cargo. Jacob’s short story collection, Scouting for the Reaper, won the Hudson Prize and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. His short fiction has appeared in more than two hundred leading literary
journals including Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Raritan, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, StoryQuarterly, Threepenny Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and West Branch. His prose has won the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition, the William
Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for the Short Story, the Dana Award, the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction, the North American Review’s Kurt Vonnegut Prize, the Missouri Review’s Editor’s Prize, the Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize, the Briar Cliff Review’s Short Fiction Prize, the Salem College Center for Women Writers’ Reynolds Price Short
Fiction Award, the H. E. Francis Prize, the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award on four separate occasions, an Elizabeth George Fellowship and a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Grant. His stories have been short-listed for the O. Henry Award (2001), Best American Short Stories (2007, 2008), Best American Nonrequired Reading
(2007, 2008), and the Pushcart Prize anthology (2005, 2006, 2011). Jacob holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Brown, an M.S. in bioethics from the Alden March Bioethics Institute of Albany Medical College, an M.A. and an M.Phil. from Columbia, an M.D. from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, an M.F.A. from N.Y.U. and a J.D.
from Harvard Law School.