{"id":9404,"date":"2022-05-06T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/?page_id=9404"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:50:18","slug":"paul-cody","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/paul-cody\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Cody"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Cody was born in Newton, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School and from the University of Massachusetts at Boston,\u00a0magna cum laude<\/em>, With Distinction in English, and Senior Honors in Creative Writing. He worked at the Perkins School for the Blind for three years, and earned an M.F.A. from Cornell University, where he was twice co-winner of the Arthur Lynn Prize in Fiction. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation, and was awarded a Stegner Fellowship by Stanford University (declined). He has worked as a housepainter, teacher, editor and journalist, was associate editor and staff writer at\u00a0Cornell Magazine<\/em>, where he twice won CASE awards for articles; and has taught at Cornell, Ithaca College, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the Colgate Writing Seminars, and in Auburn Prison. His published novels include\u00a0The Stolen Child<\/em>\u00a0(Baskerville, 1995),\u00a0Eyes Like Mine<\/em>\u00a0(Baskerville, 1996),\u00a0So Far Gone\u00a0<\/em>(Picador USA, 1998),\u00a0Shooting the Heart<\/em>\u00a0(Viking, 2004),\u00a0Love<\/em>\u00a0Is Both Wave and Particle<\/em>\u00a0(Roaring Brook, 2017),\u00a0Sphyxia<\/em>\u00a0(Fomite, 2020),\u00a0Walk the Dark<\/em>\u00a0(Regal, 2024), as well as a memoir,\u00a0The Last Next Time<\/em>\u00a0(Irving Place Editions, 2013). His work has appeared in various periodicals, including\u00a0Harper\u2019s, Epoch, The Quarterly, Story<\/em>, the\u00a0Boston Globe Magazine<\/em>, and\u00a0Cornell Magazine<\/em>, and he has appeared on\u00a0Voice of America<\/em>\u00a0as a Critic\u2019s Choice. He lives with his wife in Ithaca, New York. Their two sons live in Brooklyn and Missoula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regal House is delighted to bring you Paul’s next novel The Children Everywhere, Asleep<\/em> in the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Cody was born in Newton, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School and from the University of Massachusetts at Boston,\u00a0magna cum laude, With Distinction in English, and Senior Honors in Creative Writing. 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