Gabriel Packard

GABRIEL PACKARD

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The New Yorker; print edition; read it here.

Short bio:

Gabriel Packard is the author of the novel The Painted Ocean. His journalism has appeared in New York magazine and The New Yorker. He has a BA in English from Oxford University and has guest lectured or taught one-off seminars at universities including Cornell, Yale, Dartmouth, U. Penn, NYU, Oxford and Cambridge.

Long bio:

Gabriel Packard's novel The Painted Ocean (Corsair/Little, Brown) was called “a fearless tour de force” by National Book Award-winner Colum McCann, who also called Gabriel “a major new literary talent,” and it received recognition including being included in W.H. Smith’s Fresh Talent series. Gabriel graduated from Oxford University with a B.A. in English. He has guest lectured or taught one-off seminars at universities in the U.S. and U.K., including Cornell, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Wellesley, U. Penn, NYU, Oxford and Cambridge, and his journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Poets & Writers and New York magazine. 

Gabriel has worked as a researcher for the novelists E.L. Doctorow, Peter Carey (Parrot & Olivier in America) and Jonathan Franzen (Freedom). He is the recipient of several honors, including a K. Blundell Trust Award from the Society of Authors. He was also the editor of the short-run, boutique publication With a Little Help From Our Friends, an anthology of creative writing that contains favorite extracts and short pieces selected by thirty-six writers, including Salman Rushdie (Booker Prize winner), Sharon Olds (Pulitzer Prize winner), and Michael Cunningham (National Book Award winner).