Kyle Minor

Kyle Minor (born 1976) is an American writer. Born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida, Minor lived in Ohio and Kentucky before settling in Indiana. He studied writing at Ohio State University, where he was a three-time honoree in The Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Awards^[1] and a winner of the 2012 Iowa Review Prize for Short Fiction and Random House's Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers contest,^[2] and at the Iowa Writers' Workshop,^[3] where he reported on the 2012 United States presidential election for Esquire.^[4]

His debut collection of short fiction, In the Devil's Territory, which was described as being about how "personal secrets always exact a terrible price" in a review at the Boston Phoenix,^[5] included the novella A Day Meant to Do Less, which was chosen by George Pelecanos for Houghton Mifflin's Best American Mystery Stories 2008 anthology. His stories and essays also appear in literary journals including Esquire, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, and Gulf Coast, and in 2013/14 he wrote a biweekly column for Salon.com.^[6] His second collection of short fiction, Praying Drunk, was called an "often dazzling, emotional, funny, captivating puzzle" by Publishers Weekly.^[7] In January 2015, it was awarded The Story Prize Spotlight Award, which honors a short story collection worthy of additional attention.^[8]

Minor has written about driving for Uber following a film deal that fell through.^[9]

Bibliography

Praying Drunk (short fiction, Sarabande Books, 2014)
In the Devil's Territory (short fiction, Dzanc Books, 2008)

References

^ "The Atlantic Monthly is pleased to announce...". The Atlantic Monthly, 2005, Retrieved July 30, 2013.
^ Cerand, Lauren (9 July 2014), The PEN Ten with Kyle Minor, New York, NY: PEN America, retrieved 10 Aug 2014, This week Lauren talks with Kyle Minor, the author of two collections of short fiction: In the Devil's Territory (2008) and Praying Drunk (2014). He is the winner of the 2012 Iowa Review Prize for Short Fiction and the Tara M. Kroger Prize for Short Fiction, one of Random House's Best New Voices of 2006, and a three-time honoree in the Atlantic Monthly contest.
^ Miller, Nicholas, "The Iowa Writers' Workshop," Iowa City Only, May 13, 2013, Retrieved July 30, 2013.
^ "Iowa and the Too-Easy Magic of the Battleground," Esquire, November 6, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
^ MacLaughlin, Nina, "Kyle Minor's Book of Secrets," The Boston Phoenix, Feb. 25, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
^ "Kyle Minor's Articles". Salon.com. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
^ "Fiction Review: Praying Drunk" in Publishers Weekly, July 2013, Retrieved July 30, 2013.
^ "TSP: Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor—This Year's Winner of the Story Prize Spotlight Award". Thestoryprize.blogspot.com. 12 January 2015.
^ "The Uber Diaries". New Ohio Review. 2019-10-02. Retrieved 2019-10-20.