John Fulton is the author of The Flounder and Other Stories (Blackwater Press), a Poets and Writers Page One New and Noteworthy Book Selection; Retribution (Picador USA), which won the Southern Review Short Fiction Award; the novel More Than Enough (Picador USA), which was a Barnes and Noble’s Discover Great New Writers selection; and The Animal Girl (LSU Press), a Story Prize Notable Book and a Paterson Fiction Prize finalist.
His short fiction has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, twice cited for distinction in the Best American Short Stories, and has appeared in Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Oxford American, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Writers Institute, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs.
While at MacDowell, Fulton worked on a collection of linked short stories about Americans living in Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dramatic transition for many from Communism to Capitalism. Stories from the collection have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for best Spiritual Literature and have recently appeared in The Missouri Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Southern Indiana Review, among others.
