Department of Creative Writing University of Texas at El Paso Liberal Arts 415 500 West University Ave. El Paso, TX 79968 lex@utep.edu			2704 N. Kansas El Paso, TX 79902 915-351-7144 (home office/fax) 915-747-8806 (office) 915-433-1931 (mobile)
Homepage	http://www.lexwilliford.com
Education	MFA: Fiction Writing, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 1987. http://www.uark.edu/~arsc/Main_Connection2.pdf MA: English, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX, 1982. BA: English/Journalism, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1979.
Publications
(book of stories)	Macauley’s Thumb (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1994). Co-winner of the 1993 Iowa Short Fiction Award. ISBN: 0877454434
	http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/wilmacthu.htm
(Anthology, Editor)	The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories Since 1970 (New York: Simon & Schuster/Scribner Trade Paperback, 1999). ISBN: 0684857960. Co-edited with Michael Martone, with an introduction by Rosellen Brown. Selected as a future Featured Alternate for the Quality Paperback Books Club, this anthology includes a democratic selection of stories from the last twenty years nominated by teaching writers in writing workshops, national writing program directors and freelance fiction writers.
	http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684857960/qid%3D930371750/Sr%3D1-2/002-2423084-1050443
	Fifty Contemporary Stories Since 1970, hardcover reprint for Borders Books, forthcoming.
(stories)	“Beck’s Girls,” Glimmer Train Stories, (Spring 2005, Issue 54): 168-179, 243.
	“A Cross for Sister Mary Joseph,” River Styx 68, 2004: 76-78. http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/River%20Styx%20SMJ.htm
	“Nate and Drake,” Natural Bridge 11 (Spring 2004): 25-27. http://www.umsl.edu/~natural/number11/williford.html http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Natural%20Bridge%20ND.htm
	“My Mother’s Wedding Dress,” Prairie Schooner, Special Fiction Issue, Summer 2003: 21-26. http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Prairie%20Schooner%20WD.htm
	“The Tub,” Witness, Volume XVII, Number 1, 2003, 62-76. http://www.occ.cc.mi.us/witness/ http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Witness%20Tub.htm
	“A Rose for Sister Carmel,” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Special Section—Flash Fiction, 2003: 43, 48-49.
	“White Rock,” Cortland Review: An Online Literary Magazine in Real Audio 5 (November, 1998).
	http://www.cortlandreview.com/issuefive/lex5.htm http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/BSE%20pdfs/Cortland%20Review%20White%20Rock.pdf
	“Milk, Blood, Bone, Moon,” Quarterly West 47 (Autumn/Winter 1998-99), 106-139.
	“Seven Train,” Idaho Review 1.1 (Spring Inaugural Issue, 1998): 110-125.
	http://english.boisestate.edu/idahoreview/1998.htm http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Shenandoah%20Brush.htm
	“Little Man,” American Literary Review 8.1 (Spring 1998): 26-27.
	“The Brush,” Shenandoah 47.3 (Fall 1997): 30-41. http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Shenandoah%20Brush.htm
	“Jesse,” Glimmer Train Stories 22 (Spring 1997): 49-65, 147.
	http://www.glimmertrain.com/is22sprin19.html http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Glimmer%20Train%20Jesse.htm
	“Hoot’s Last Bubble Bath,” (reprint) Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review 26.1-4 (Spring 1996): 55-76.
	“Possum Kingdom,” Sou’wester 22.1 (Spring/Summer 1994): 108.
	“Hoot’s Last Bubble Bath,” Glimmer Train Stories (Spring 1994, Issue 10): 133-167, 179.
	“Influenza,” Fiction 12.1 (1994): 23-28.
	“The Coat,” Quarterly West 38 (Winter/Spring 1994): 16-17.
	“Macauley’s Thumb,” Glimmer Train Stories (Winter 1994, Issue 9): 98-109, 164.
	“Godzilla vs. the Sensitive Man,” Laurel Review 27.2 (Summer 1993): 106-128.
	“Fair Day,” Virginia Quarterly Review 68.3 (Summer 1992): 515-538.
	“A Discussion of Property,” StoryQuarterly 28 (Summer 1990): 18-28.
	“Taking Nonie Home,” Kansas Quarterly 21.1-2 (Winter/Spring 1989): 11-24.
	“Pendergast’s Daughter,” Quarterly West 28 (Winter/Spring 1989): 4.
	“Get Right or Get Left,” Southern Review 3.2 (Summer 1987): 709-718.
	“Two Sons, Two Wars,” RE: Artes Liberales 10.1 (Fall 1983): 37-53.
(stories in translation)	Farsi: “Behtarin Bache Ye Alam” (“Pendergast’s Daughter”), translated by Asadollah Amraee.
	Spanish: “La hija de Pendergast,” Tameme, Sol y Luna Issue: 2.1 (2001): 114-117, translated by Claudia Esteve.
	http://www.tameme.org/issue_2/contents2.htm
(stories in anthologies)	“The Tub,” The Best of Witness (1987-2003), forthcoming.
	“A Cross for Sister Mary Joseph,” Micro2: Voices for the New Millennium, forthcoming.
	“Pendergast’s Daughter,” The Eloquent Short Story: Varieties of Narration: An Anthology, Edited, with an introduction by Lucy Rosenthal (Persea Books, 2004): 57-58.
	“Texas State Optical,” Chokecherries: A S.O.M.O.S. Anthology 2001 (Taos, NM, Society of the Muse of the Southwest, 2001): 39-40.
	“A Discussion of Property,” The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991-2000, Selected by Frank Conroy (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2001): 262-271.
	“A Discussion of Property,” Alabama Bound (Livingston, AL: Livingston University Press, 1995): 193-198.
	“Hoot’s Last Bubble Bath,” The Iowa Short Fiction Sampler: The 1993 Winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the John Simmons Short Fiction Award (Iowa City, IA.: University of Iowa Press, 1994): 2-31.
	“Folsom Man,” New Texas 93, James Ward Lee, et al, eds. Denton, TX: Center for Texas Studies (1993): 170-178.
	“Pendergast’s Daughter,” Flash Fiction, James Thomas et al, eds. New York: W. W. Norton and Company (1992): 37-38.
(chapbook)	Macauley’s Thumb (Tuscaloosa, AL.: Saffron Press, 1995), limited edition (64 signed copies) printed and bound by September Lynn Newman Kirk, illustrated by Jeff Moss.
	http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Macauley's%20Thumb%20Chapbook.htm
(novels in progress)	Nacogdoches (written through chapter ten)
	Aggieland (written through chapter five)
(book of stories in progress)	Milk, Blood, Bone, Moon (five published stories completed)
(screenplays in progress)	“Hotel Mariposa” (ninth draft)
(essay on writing)	“The ‘Last’ Draft,” Novel and Short Story Writers’ Market, 2002, 42-45. http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/Novel%20SS%20Market%202002.htm
(pedagogical essays)	“Toward a More Open, Democratic Workshop,” Poets & Writers, 26: 2 (March/April, 1998), 52-54, 56, 60, 62, 67, 69, 73, 75, 77. [Response to letter: Poets & Writers, 26: 4 (July/August, 1998), 7-8.]
	http://www.pw.org/mag/mag9803.htm http://www.lexwilliford.com/BSE/PW.htm
	“Images, Comparisons, and Surprises: Three Terms for Teaching Students to Write Poetry,” Alabama English 1.2 (Fall 1989): 13-20.
(review)	“Madison Smart Bell’s Barking Man and Other Stories,” Southern Humanities Review 25.2 (Spring 1991): 190-193.
(introduction)	Guest Editor’s Introduction, Natural Bridge, Issue 8, Fall 2002, forthcoming. http://www.umsl.edu/~natural/number8/williford_intro.html
	Editor’s Introduction, Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction.
(exercise)	Poetry-writing exercise in: Making Poems, Arkansas Writers in the Schools, Nancy McCabe Francoeur, Ed., Fayetteville, AR (Spring 1988): 11-13.
Honors and Awards	2004, “Hotel Mariposa,” Squaw Valley Writers Conference, Screenwriting Scholarship.
	2003, “A Cross for Sister Mary Joseph,” Finalist, Glimmer Train, Short-Short Story Award
	2002, “Nate and Drake,” Finalist, Glimmer Train, Short-Short Story Award