Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Among his numerous works are the memoir You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me; the poetry collection Face; the story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, winner of a PEN/Hemingway Award; the young adult book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, for which he received the National Book Award; and the picture book Thunder Boy Jr. In 2010 Alexie received the PEN/Faulkner Award for War Dances, a collection of stories, essays, and poems. He is also a recipient of a 2015 Narrative Storyteller Award. Alexie lives with his family in Seattle.
Photograph by Chase Jarvis.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- A Vacuum Is a Space Entirely Devoid of Matter, a short story, in Fall 2017
- The Human Comedy Part II, a six-word story, in Winter 2016
- Murder-Suicide, a six-word story, in Winter 2012
- In’din Curse, an ipoem, in Winter 2012
- Three Poems, poetry, in Fall 2011
- Idolatry, an istory, in Spring 2011
- The Human Comedy, a six-word story, in Fall 2010