Mark Poirier

Mark Poirier
Mark Poirier
Born	Mark Jude Poirier; Tucson, Arizona, United States
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter
Genre	Fiction
Literary movement	Postmodern
Notable works	Goats; Modern Ranch Living; Smart People

'Mark Jude Poirier

Personal life

He grew up in Tucson, Arizona, the fifth child in a family of eleven children. He lives in New York City with his partner, Edward Cahill.^[1]

Career

He wrote the novels Modern Ranch Living and Goats as well as the short story collections Unsung Heroes of American Industry and Naked Pueblo.

He served as the editor of the book The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-Out, Angst-Ridden, Lust-Addled, and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us, including short pieces by George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, A. M. Homes and Nathan Englander.

At one time, Poirier was named "the young American writer to watch" by the Times Literary Supplement. He has been the recipient of a Maytag Fellowship and a James Michener Fellowship.

He is currently working as a screenwriter and is the author of Smart People^[2] and the adaptation of his novel Goats. He was awarded a Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with Paramount Pictures.

He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and Stanford University. He taught at Bennington College and Columbia University. He is currently teaching screenwriting at Harvard University.^{[citation needed]}