ZZ Packer Biography
ZZ Packer is an American writer who specializes in short fiction. Her work initially appeared in The New Yorker’s Debut Fiction issue in 2000.
ZZ Packer Age
ZZ was born Zuwena Packer on January 12, 1973. Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, She is 51 years old as of 2024.
ZZ Packer Education
Packer attended Yale University and graduated with a BA in 1994. Her graduate education included an MA from Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1999, where she was supervised by James Alan McPherson.
ZZ Packer Family
Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
ZZ Packer Career
Her work initially appeared in The New Yorker’s Debut Fiction issue in 2000. Her short tale in the magazine became the title piece for her collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. In the words of Publishers Weekly, “this debut short story collection is getting the highest of accolades from the New York Times, Harper’s, the New Yorker and most every other branch of the literary criticism tree.””ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is taught in creative writing courses across the country, and for good reason.” “This short story collection is brimming with characters trying to find themselves, understand themselves, and survive,” said novelist Colson Whitehead. Packer is currently[when?][needs update] working on a novel set during Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War: “The theme is the Buffalo Soldiers; blacks who abandoned the South, specifically Louisiana, and traveled to the West. You don’t hear much about blacks in the West, so I grew captivated by them. To justify my curiosity, I decided to write about them.” A brief passage from the novel appeared in The New Yorker magazine’s “20 Under 40” issue. She has made frequent contributions to The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker.
ZZ Packer Net Worth
Packer has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
ZZ Packer Books
2010 Dayward
2011 Ferraro’s Barack Problem
2012 Keeping it Weird in Austin, Texas
2013 It’s Beyoncé’s World
2017 Trump Talk:
2017 What to Expect When You’re Expecting Fascism
2018 News of an ‘Outrage’
2018 When Is ‘Civility’ a Duty,
2019 July 30, 1866
2019 Truth And Fiction
2020 Preacher of the New Antiracist Gospel
2020 Sarah Cooper Doesn’t Mimic Trump. She Exposes Him.
2020 The Empty Facts of the Breonna Taylor Decision