William Giraldi
Lecturer
Contact
100 Bay State Road, Room 325
617-358-1547
wgiraldi@bu.edu
Spring Office Hours
Tuesday 2-3:30 p.m.
Thursday 8-9:30 p.m.
Education
2003 M.A. Boston University (Creative Writing)
2001 B.A. Drew University (English Literature)
Bio
William Giraldi teaches the American Short Story and The Memoir. He is the author of a novel, Busy Monsters, published by W.W. Norton (2011), is a Senior Editor for the journal AGNI, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review. He has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award in the category of Essays and Criticism, and has been a recipient of a Pushcart Prize. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Dissent, Commentary, The Daily Beast, Georgia Review, Bookforum, Salon, Southern Review, The Believer, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, The American Scholar, The New Criterion, Salmagundi, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Twice his work has been listed among “Most Notable Essays” in Best American Essays.