Russell Working, a finalist in Narrative’s 2021 Spring Story Contest and First Place winner in the 2019 Fall Story Contest, is the Pushcart Prize–winning author of two story collections: The Irish Martyr, which won the University of Notre Dame’s Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, and Resurrectionists, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and as a former newspaper reporter, he has filed stories from throughout the former Soviet Union, Asia, the Middle East, and aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. He and his wife, a Russian journalist, have two sons.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Elephant Box, a novel excerpt, in Winter 2020
- Izola, an essay, in Winter 2018
- Us, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2013–2014
- The Vanishing, a novel excerpt, in Winter 2011
- Vodka on Ice, a short story, in Fall 2009
- Evil Onions, a short story, in Winter 2009