Perry Glasser
220 Morgan Drive
Haverhill, MA 01832
978-373-2687

perry “at” perryglasser.com

I write out of certain convictions no longer universally accepted and, in some circles, under attack; that the purpose of the Arts is to illuminate and enrich the human experience; that however dark, unknown, changing and inchoate, a universal human experience exists; that human experience can and even must be communicated across the lines of our obvious physical differences; that the product of the Artist must be readily accessible to an audience; and that while the expression of the Artist embodies the essence of a time, the Artist speaks to and for an audience beyond that.

- How We Lost the Internet

Perry Glasser is an award-winning novelist and author of fiction, memoirs, creative nonfiction, and magazine journalism.

Riverton Noir, a novel, appears in November 2012.

He is the author of three collections of short fiction.

• Dangerous Places (BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City), a book that received the 2008 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize.
• Singing on the Titanic (Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press), a book recorded by the Library of Congress for the blind.
• Suspicious Origins (St. Paul: New Rivers Press), a book named winner of the Minnesota Voices Competiton. 

All Awards

Career Narrative

Perry’s teaching career began with a happy decade before the chalkboards of Bay Ridge High School in his hometown, Brooklyn. After leaving public school teaching, Perry earned his MFA degree in Fiction Writing at the University of Arizona. He then taught writing and literature at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and at Bradford College in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He left teaching in 1995 to edit and write in the private sector; Perry worked as a staff writer and editor at business and consumer magazines. He covered finance, the business of information technology, and knowledge management, reporting on those topics in the US and in China.

Perry returned to academe with a one-year position as Director of the Writing Program and Visiting Professor of English at Wichita State University from 2002-2003. In 2003 he accepted appointment to the faculty of Salem State University as Coordinator of Professional Writing.

Perry is available for talks with student and adult groups about fiction and memoir writing, magazine journalism, or education.