Public Radio. His work is widely translated, and it is taught in high schools and colleges. His stories are included in many anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, and New Stories of the South (four works). They have twice been featured on "Selected Shorts" on NPR. He has also written screenplays for TV series. Honors His work has received awards from the Lannan Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He received a Whiting Award in Fiction and Nonfiction. In 1996 Offutt was named one of the twenty best young American fiction writers by Granta magazine. Works Books Kentucky Straight (1992) The Same River Twice: A Memoir (1993) The Good Brother (1997) Out of the Woods (1999) "Moscow, Idaho," Originally Published in Granta 54: Best of Young American Novelists No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home (2002) My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir (February 2016) Country Dark (2018) The Killing Hills (2021) Stories and articles "Chicken Eggs", Oxford American, Spring 2014 "My Dad, the Pornographer", New York Times Magazine, 5 February 2015 "Trash Food", Oxford American, Spring 2015 Television True Blood "Burning House of Love" (1x07) "I Don't Wanna Know" (1x10) Weeds "A Distinctive Horn" (5x08) References Further reading External links "Chris Offutt bio", Lannan Foundation Profile at The Whiting Foundation Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Chris Offutt papers, circa 1980-2015 1958 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American memoirists American male novelists Screenwriters from Iowa Grinnell College faculty Writers from Santa Monica, California Writers from Lexington, Kentucky University of Montana faculty University of New Mexico faculty Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni American television writers American male television writers American male short story writers American male screenwriters 20th-century American short story writers Screenwriters from Kentucky 20th-century American male writers Novelists from Kentucky Novelists from Iowa American male non-fiction writers Screenwriters from California Screenwriters from Montana Screenwriters from New Mexico