Mark Jude Poirier is the author of the novels “Goats” and “Modern Ranch Living,” and two story collections, “Naked Pueblo” and “Unsung Heroes of American Industry.”
The San Francisco Chronicle called him “a very talented young writer spinning wholly original, humorous tales.” The Scotsman raved that “Poirier is as on the ball as Salinger, as clued in as Hunter S. Thompson, and acutely tuned to right here, right now.” And the Times Literary Supplement named him “the young American writer to watch.
Poirier edited “The Worst Years of Your Life: Stories for the Geeked-out, Angst-ridden, Lust-addled and Deeply Misunderstood Adolescent in All of Us,” an anthology including stories by George Saunders, Jennifer Egan, Jim Shepard and Nathan Englander.
In 2008, Miramax released his first film, “Smart People,” which debuted at Sundance and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Poirier now lives in Connecticut.
