# Skip Horack > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Skip_Horack > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Skip_Horack.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Horack > Source revision: 1348367962 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American writer (born 1976)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox writer | name = Skip Horack | image = Skip Horack 2015.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Horack at the 2015 Texas Book Festival | pseudonym = | birth_name = Bruce Maclachlan Horack, Jr.{{Cite web|url=https://www.floridabar.org/directories/find-mbr/|title=Lawyer Directory – The Florida Bar}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1976|5|24}} | birth_place = [New Orleans, Louisiana](/source/New_Orleans%2C_Louisiana) | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author, professor | nationality = American | period = | genre = Fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''The Southern Cross'' (2009)
''The Eden Hunter'' (2010)
''The Other Joseph'' (2015) | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | website = | portaldisp = }} '''Bruce Maclachlan "Skip" Horack, Jr.''' (born May 24, 1976) is an American writer. ==Life and career== He was raised in [Covington, Louisiana](/source/Covington%2C_Louisiana) where he attended [St. Paul's School](/source/St._Paul's_School_(Covington%2C_Louisiana)).{{Cite web |last=Antopol |first=Molly |date=2015-03-23 |title=The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack |url=https://therumpus.net/2015/03/23/the-rumpus-interview-with-skip-horack/ |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=The Rumpus |language=en-US}} Horack holds a B.A. in English and a J.D. from [Florida State University](/source/Florida_State_University). He worked as a lawyer for five years in [Baton Rouge, Louisiana](/source/Baton_Rouge%2C_Louisiana){{cite web |url=http://southeastreview.org/2009/09/skip-horack.html |title=Skip Horack - the Southeast Review Online |access-date=2009-11-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029090943/http://southeastreview.org/2009/09/skip-horack.html |archive-date=2009-10-29 }} before committing fully to writing and teaching. He is a former [Stegner Fellow](/source/Stegner_Fellowship) and [Jones Lecturer](/source/Jones_Lectureship) at [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University),{{Cite web |last=Bennitt |first=Tom |date=December 12, 2013 |title=Grist for the Writing Mill: An Interview with Skip Horack |url=https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/grist-for-the-writing-mill-an-interview-with-skip-horack/ |website=Fiction Writers Review}} and is currently an associate professor at [Florida State University](/source/Florida_State_University).{{Cite web |title=Skip Horack {{!}} Department of English |url=https://english.fsu.edu/faculty/skip-horack |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=english.fsu.edu}} His story collection ''The Southern Cross'', which won the [Bread Loaf Writers' Conference](/source/Bread_Loaf_Writers'_Conference) Bakeless Prize,{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222002939/http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/blwc/bakeless/2008_Winners.htm |date=February 22, 2012}} was published in 2009 by [Mariner Books](/source/Mariner_Books). The contest was judged by [Antonya Nelson](/source/Antonya_Nelson), who called the story collection "a knockout winner." Hailed as a "storyteller of uncommon talent," Horack's stories are "artfully evoked and deeply felt"{{cite web|author=Susan Larson |url=https://www.nola.com/books/index.ssf/2009/08/skip_horack_makes_a_fine_debut.html |title=Skip Horack makes a fine debut with 'The Southern Cross' |website=NOLA.com |date=2009-08-19 |accessdate=2016-11-18}} and depict characters that are "vital, funny, and heartbreakingly human."{{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2009/jul/08/editors-picks-books/ |title=Oxford American - the Southern Magazine of Good Writing :: BOOKS: JULY |access-date=2009-11-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028164844/http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2009/jul/08/editors-picks-books/ |archive-date=2009-10-28 }} His novel ''The Eden Hunter'' was published in August 2010 by [Counterpoint](/source/Counterpoint_(publisher)) and was a ''[New York Times Book Review](/source/New_York_Times_Book_Review)'' Editors' Choice.{{Cite news |date=2010-10-15 |title=Editors’ Choice |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/books/review/EdChoice-t.html |access-date=2025-07-03 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Reviewer [Sven Birkerts](/source/Sven_Birkerts) noted: "Horack, the author of a well-received story collection, ''The Southern Cross,'' writes luminous, clean prose....He has a poet’s tuned attentiveness, but never uses his sentences to preen."{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/books/review/Birkerts-t.html/ |title=Book Review - the Eden Hunter - by Skip Horack - the New York Times |website=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |access-date=2017-02-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224712/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/books/review/Birkerts-t.html |archive-date=2016-11-18 }} His novel ''The Other Joseph'' was published in March 2015 by [Ecco](/source/Ecco_Press). ''Publishers Weekly'' called it an "exciting, well-plotted sophomore novel" that "delivers satisfying plot turns."{{Cite web |title=The Other Joseph by Skip Horack |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780062300850 |access-date=2025-06-19 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}} Horack's fiction and nonfiction has also appeared in ''[Oxford American](/source/Oxford_American)'',{{Cite web |title=Issue 67, Winter 2009 |url=https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-67-winter-2009 |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=Oxford American |language=en}} ''[The Southeast Review](/source/The_Southeast_Review)'', ''[New Delta Review](/source/New_Delta_Review)'', ''[Louisiana Literature](/source/Louisiana_Literature)'', ''[The Southern Review](/source/The_Southern_Review)'', ''[StoryQuarterly](/source/StoryQuarterly)'', ''[Epoch](/source/Epoch_(American_magazine))'', ''[Narrative Magazine](/source/Narrative_Magazine)'', and elsewhere.{{Cite web |title=Skip Horack |url=https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/skip-horack-201511225223313 |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=HarperCollins |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2008-06-02 |title=Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers' Conference awards 2008 Bakeless Prizes in poetry, fiction and nonfiction {{!}} Middlebury News and Announcements |url=https://www.middlebury.edu/announcements/2008/06/middlebury-college-bread-loaf-writers-conference-awards-2008-bakeless-prizes-poetry-fiction |access-date=2025-07-03 |website=www.middlebury.edu |language=en}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.skiphorack.com/home Official website] * [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/books/review/Birkerts-t.html ''New York Times Book Review'' review] of ''The Eden Hunter'' {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Horack, Skip}} Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:American short story writers Category:Writers from Louisiana Category:Florida State University College of Law alumni Category:Stanford University faculty Category:Florida State University faculty Category:People from Covington, Louisiana --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Skip Horack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Horack) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_Horack?action=history)). 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