Gregory Spatz’s most recently published books are the novel Inukshuk (Bellevue Literary Press, 2012) and the collection of interconnected novellas and stories What Could Be Saved (Tupelo Press, 2019). His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, New England Review, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Santa Monica Review, The Iowa Review, and many other journals as well as in Glimmer Train Stories. Spatz is the recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Washington State Book Award. He directs the MFA program for creative writing at Eastern Washington University.
Food
Fall 2023
Thunderhead
The Kenyon Review · “Thunderhead” by Gregory Spatz The ground was cold under David’s shoulder blades despite the heat of the day. Cold and with an incipient damp just beneath […]
Fiction
May/June 2016
We Unlovely, Unloved
You had a dream of playing the violin, or maybe it wasn’t your dream. Maybe it was the dream of a parent or dead grandparent channeled through you, displaced onto […]
Fiction
Spring 2009
The Bowmaker’s Cats
We’d been to the bowmaker’s house before, but not recently, and never all of us together. We’d toured his workshop and house, seen his shelves of stacked bow blanks, his […]
Gregory Spatz
Gregory Spatz’s most recent book publications are the novel Inukshuk and short story collection Half as Happy. Recent awards include a 2012 NEA Fellowship in Literature and a Washington State […]