Professor Perry Glasser coordinates the Professional Writing Program in the English Department at Salem State University.

CONTACT
Office: MH 228
Telephone: 978-542-7032
email: pglasser@salemstate.edu

Syallabuses and materials for Spring 2012

Perry Glasser is the author of the forthcoming prize-winning novel, Riverton Noir, expected in Fall 2012. Read advance notices.

He has published more than 50 stories and memoirs in dozens of literary journals, as well as three collections of short fiction, Suspicious Origins, Singing on the Titanic, and Dangerous Places.  He is a three-time-winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, two-time winner of the Boston Fiction Festival Competition, the 2008 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for fiction, and the 2009 Gival Press Award for Short Fiction. His memoir of being a single parent, “Iowa Black Dirt,” received First Prize from The Good Men Foundation.  He has been a fellow at Ucross, Yaddo, The Norman Mailer House, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

His professional  website.

SSU Profile.

Online publications.

Awards