Frank Soos

Frank Soos (1950 – August 18, 2021) was an American short story writer.^[1]

Life

Soos grew up in Pocahontas, Virginia.^[2] He graduated from Davidson College in 1972 and the University of Arkansas.^[3] He taught at University of Alaska Fairbanks.^[4]

His work appeared in North Dakota Quarterly and Quarterly West.^[5]

Soos died in a bicycle accident in Maine on August 18, 2021.^[6]

Awards

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• Alaska State Writer Laureate

Works

• Unpleasantries. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA. 2016 (essays.) ISBN 978-0-29599-840-4.
• Frank Soos; Margo Klass; Kesler Woodward (2009). Double Moon. Red Hen Press. ISBN 978-1-59709-141-1.
• Frank Soos (2006). Bamboo Fly Rod Suite: Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace. Illustrator Kesler Woodward. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2835-5.
• Unified Field Theory. W. W. Norton & Company. 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-31988-0.
• Early yet: seven short stories and a novella. St. Andrews College Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-879934-52-8.
• The other side of Christiansburg. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. 1981.

Anthologies

• David Starkey, ed. (2007). "Hauling Water". Living blue in the red states. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6008-5.
• Susan Fox Rogers, ed. (2002). "Upside Down with Borges and bob". Alaska Passages: 20 Voices from Above the 54th Parallel. Sasquatch Books. ISBN 978-1-57061-046-2.

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