Baker Artist Portfolios

Lysley Tenorio is the author of the story collection Monstress, named a book of the year by The San Francisco Chronicle, and the novel The Son of Good Fortune, winner of the New American Voices Award. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Manoa, and Zoetrope: All-Story, and have been adapted the for the stage in San Francisco and New York City. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in the Philippines and raised in California, he is an Associate Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.