Rick DeMarinis

Rick DeMarinis has published eight novels and six collections of short stories. His collection, Borrowed Hearts , won the Independent Book Publishers Award for best short fiction, 2000. His short fiction has appeared in such magazines as GQ , Harpers , The Atlantic , and Esquire . In 1986 he won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, and two of his stories have been published in Best American Short Stories . He taught fiction writing at San Diego State University, and the University...See more

Rick DeMarinis has published eight novels and six collections of short stories. His collection, Borrowed Hearts , won the Independent Book Publishers Award for best short fiction, 2000. His short fiction has appeared in such magazines as GQ , Harpers , The Atlantic , and Esquire . In 1986 he won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, and two of his stories have been published in Best American Short Stories . He taught fiction writing at San Diego State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso. See less