Regional Office Is Under Attack (Gonzales) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1974
• Raised—Fort Worth and Plano, Texas, USA
• Education—B.A., University of Texas; M.F.A., Columbia University
• Awards—Sue Kaufman Price for First Fiction; John Gardner Prize for Fiction
• Currently—lives in Lexington, Kentucky


Manuel Gonzales is the author of The Miniature Wife and Other Stories (2013) and his debut novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack! (2016). He is an assistant professor of writing at the University of Kentucky. He and his wife have two children.

Gonzales graduated with a BA in English from the University of Texas in 1996 and then with an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Columbia University's School of the Arts in 2003.

His fiction and nonfiction have been published in McSweeney's, Fence, Tin House, Open City, One Story, The Believer, i09.com, and various other publications. He is the recipient of the Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Price for First Fiction and the Binghamton University John Gardner Prize for Fiction.

For four years he ran the nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids, Austin Bat Cave, and in times past he co-owned The Clarksville Pie Company in Austin, TX, where he baked pies for a living. (Adapted from University of Kentucky profile.)