William Conescu
William Conescu’s first novel, Being Written, (Harper Perennial, 2008), is the story of a man who has discovered that he’s a minor character in a book and the lengths to which he’s willing to go to win a bigger part. Translations of the novel have been released or are forthcoming in Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey and Spain. William graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with highest honors in creative writing and later earned an M.F.A. in creative writing at North Carolina State University. His short stories have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, New Letters, Green Mountains Review and elsewhere. William was born in New York and raised in New Orleans. He works in development communications at Duke University and lives in Chapel Hill. He is currently working on his second novel.
