Mark Budman
Mark Budman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Moldavian SSR |
| Occupation | Writer Inventor |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Master's in Electrical Enginering |
| Notable works | My Life at First Try |
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Mark Budman is a foreign-born, but writing in English, American fiction writer.[1][2]
Born in Moldova, he spent his childhood in Russia. He was published in Russia, but switched to English upon his emigration to the US in 1980. He is a recognized expert in flash fiction[3][4][5][6]. He's the author of a novel-in-flashes "My Life at First Try," a co-editor of several flash fiction anthologies, and an editor/publisher of a flash fiction magazine Vestal Review since 2000.
"Mark Budman’s My Life at First Try straddles the space between the short story cycle tradition of writers like Sherwood Anderson, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway, and the novel, with its essential unities of character and plot."[7]
He judged several writing competitions such as 2009 Press 53 Open Awards writing contest. He is currently a short story judge at Hampton Roads Writers 9th Annual Conference.
The quote from his novel "My Life at First Try” can describe him as well: “Writing in a second language is supposed to be a torture. But I enjoy it. Maybe I’m a masochist. Maybe I need to see a shrink. It could be fun. She would put me on a couch and ask if my mother liked to communicate with me in writing.” [8]
Mark is also an engineer in the field of microelectronics and inventor with 11 US patents.
Career[edit]
His fiction appeared in Five Points, PEN International, American Scholar, Huffington Post, World Literature Today, Daily Science Fiction, Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, The London Magazine (UK), McSweeney's, Sonora Review, Another Chicago, Sou'wester, Southeast Review, Mid-American Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Short Fiction (UK), and elsewhere.
Works[edit]
Books[edit]
Anthologies[edit]
- You Have Time For This. Ooligan Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1932010176. Search this book on
(with Tom Hazuka) - Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories. Karen and Michael Braziller Books. 2011. ISBN 978-0892553716. Search this book on (with Tom Hazuka)
Stories[edit]
- "AN OPEN LETTER TO NEPOTISM". McSweeney's Internet Tendencies. 2004.
- "The Land of Dreams, the Garden of Insomnia". Virginia Quarterly. 2009.
- "A Knight On The Town". Huffington Post. 2014.
- "A Diptych Translated from Scratch". American Scholar. 2015.
- "The Kindness of Heart". Prairie Schooner. 2016.
- "The Amazing Adventures of a Certified Medical Interpreter". World Literature Today. 2016.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Mark Budman". Retrieved 2013-12-04.
- ↑ "PEN". https://pen.org/user/mark-budman/. 2010-06-28. Retrieved 2013-12-04. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "The Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction". 2016.
- ↑ "Flash Fiction: What's It All About?". 2016.
- ↑ "Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories, edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman". 2011.
- ↑ "Guest Author Mark Budman on Word Counts and Concise Writing". 2012.
- ↑ "MY LIFE AT FIRST TRY". 2009.
- ↑ ""My Life at First Try" by Mark Budman". Retrieved 2013-12-04.
External links[edit]
- TSS Flash Fiction Interview: Mark Budman
- WIPs Conversation: Mark Budman on His Work in Progress
- Interview with Mark Budman in Sonora Review
- Interview with Mark Budman in Eight Diagrams
- Мы Здесь (in Russian)
- Author's blog
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