Lysley Tenorio

Lysley A. Tenorio (born Olongapo City, Philippines) is a Filipino-American short story writer.

Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and the Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Born in the Philippines, he lives in San Francisco, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.

He is currently working on a novel.

Awards

2000 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University
2002 The Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction
2006 Pushcart Prize for "The Brothers"
2006 NEA Fellowship^[1]
2008 Whiting Award
2013 Edmund White Award^[2]
2014 The Paris Review Writer-In-Residence at The Standard Hotel^[3]
2015 The Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
2020 James Merrill House Fellowship
2020 New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research in the US^[4]

—— (1998). The View from Culion: Stories. University of Oregon. (Thesis/Dissertation manuscript)
—— (2012). Monstress. Ecco. ISBN 9780062059567.

Charles Baxter; John Kulka; Natalie Danford, eds. (2001). Best New American Voices 2001. Harcourt. ISBN 9780156010658.
Barbara Kingsolver; Katrina Kenison, eds. (2001). The Best American Short Stories. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780395926888.
Jessica Hagedorn, ed. (2013). Manila Noir. Akashic Books. ISBN 9781617751608.

Official website
Profile at The Whiting Foundation
"Lysley Tenorio", KQED
"interview with Lysley Tenorio", San Francisco Examiner, July 29, 2009, Alegria Garcia