3 Quotes & Sayings By Janet Kagan
Janet Kagan is on the faculty of the MFA Program in Fiction Writing at the University of Houston, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry workshops. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Azerbaijan (1992–1993) and has received the PEN/Heimrath Award for literary translation (1996) and the PEN American Center Award for her translation of The Story of My Dovecot (2007). She is the author of several books of short stories, including "The Lives They Lived," which won the 2001 PEN/Hemingway Award for best first collection. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, and other journals, and in anthologies including "Best American Short Stories 2000," "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2001," "The Best of Women's Crime Writing 2002," "Best Women's Crime Writing 2003," "Best Women's Crime Writing 2004," "The Best American Mystery Stories 2005," and "Best Fiction 2009." Janet lives in Houston with her husband, David Kagan.