Paul Lisicky

Paul Lisicky (born July 9, 1959) is an American novelist and memoirist. He is an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, and the author of several books.

Early life Lisicky was born on July 9, 1959. He grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and graduated from Cherry Hill High School East. He graduated from Rutgers University–New Brunswick, earned an MA from Rutgers University–Camden and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Career Lisicky taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Rutgers University-Newark, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and elsewhere. He is now an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden.

Lisicky is the author of seven books: Lawnboy, Famous Builder, The Burning House, Unbuilt Projects, The Narrow Door, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World, and Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell.

Lawnboy, first published in 1999, was a finalist for the 2000 Stonewall Book Award for Literature.

His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Conjunctions, Ecotone, Fence, The New York Times, The Offing, Ploughshares, Tin House, and in many other magazines and anthologies. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was twice a Fellow. He is the editor of StoryQuarterly and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

In 2021, Paul Lisicky appeared on Storybound reading an excerpt from Later : my life at the edge of the world, with music sampled from Jordan Warmack.

Personal life Lisicky lives in Brooklyn, New York City. From 1995 until 2011, his partner was the writer Mark Doty. They were married in 2008 and divorced in 2013.