Richard Bausch is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the novels Playhouse (Knopf, 2023), Hello to the Cannibals, Thanksgiving Night, and Peace, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the story collections Someone to Watch Over Me and Something Is Out There, a finalist for the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In addition, he was the 2012 winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Bausch has also received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story and the Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. A devoted teacher, he is a professor at Chapman University in Orange, California.

Photograph by Jebb Harris.




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Drew Wiberg is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is pursuing a degree in English with a focus on creative writing. The owner and operator of the People Under the Floor Press and Glaucus Objects, he specializes in publishing artists’ books and handcrafted fine-press limited editions.

Photograph by Deb Leal.

Letters to a Young Writer

In our continuing Letters to a Young Writer series, Narrative’s featured authors respond to comments and questions from younger authors reflecting on the nature of the writer’s work. Here     Richard Bausch responds to a problem posed by
    Drew Wiberg:

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