Ted Weesner, Jr.'s work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Cincinnati Review, The Boston Globe, Glamour, Memorious, Gastronomica, and elsewhere, as well as on National Public Radio. His story 'Tuscaloosa' was a Best American Distinguished selection. He has also contributed to Scribner's American Writer and The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. A recipient of the PEN/New England Discovery Award, two Somerville Arts Council grants, an award from the St. Botolph Club, and a residency at the MacDowell Colony, Weesner teaches writing at Tufts and the Museum School.
At MacDowell, Ted Weesner, Jr. began writing a novel about the expatriate community in Prague in the early '90s. His work was recently published in the Emerging Writers issue of Ploughshares, and was scheduled to appear in The Believer, The Cincinnati Review, and Boston Globe Magazine.
