ZZ Packer

ZZ Packer
ZZ Packer at the 2009 Texas Book Festival.
Born
Zuwena Packer

(1973-01-12) January 12, 1973
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Period2000-present

Zuwena "ZZ" Packer (born January 12, 1973) is an American writer, primarily of works of short fiction, and teacher. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book Drinking Coffee Elsewhere won the Commonwealth First Fiction Award and an ALEX award. It became a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award and was selected for the Today Show Book Club by John Updike.

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