Bob Thurber

A recognized "pioneer in the Micro and Flash crafts," considered a "grand master" of concise prose, Bob Thurber's work has received a long list of awards and honors, and been anthologized dozens of times. His lean, tight, straightforward stories have been praised as "authentic, with enormous verisimilitude. No false notes," and accused of leading one to "undiscovered corners of the human heart."

- Born in 1955 and raised in abject poverty, Bob graduated high school by the skin of his teeth, then spent the next twenty years working menial jobs while teaching himself to write. During that long apprenticeship, he worked at writing nearly every day without submitting his work for publication.

- Since then, his stories have appeared in numerous print magazines, including Esquire, and received a long list of awards, including The Marjory Bartlett Sanger Award, The Meridian Editors' Prize, and The Barry Hannah Fiction Prize. Several selections have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes.

- His exceedingly brief stories have been utilized in schools and universities in the US and abroad as teaching tools and examples of concise prose. "No one works better in a small space."

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