ZZ Packer is working on a novel about Reconstruction and the Buffalo Soldiers. She is the author of Drinking Coffee Elsewhere and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, GRANTA, The New York Times magazine, The Guardian, and other magazines and journals. She was selected as one of The New Yorker’s “Best 20 Under 40” American writers. She was most recently selected for 100 Years of Best American Short Stories.
ZZ Packer
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Based in Arlington, MA
Residencies: 2002, 2010, 2016
Studios
Calderwood
ZZ Packer worked in the Calderwood studio.
In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…