Douglas Light

Who is Douglas Light?

Douglas Light is an award winning American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His story collection, Girls in Trouble, won the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize for short fiction. It will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2011. His second novel, Where Night Stops, will be published in the fall 2011. His debut novel East Fifth Bliss won the 'Popular Fiction' section of the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Award presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association. East Fifth Bliss was filmed in 2010. The film stars Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall of Dexter fame, Lucy Liu, and Brie Larson. Light received a 2010 NoMAA grant for his novel 'Where Night Stops'. His short story collection Girls in Trouble won the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize, one of the nation's most prestigious short story awards. With Maps to Countries Yet Discovered, his cartographical exploration, Light expanded his storytelling into a new realm of visual. His short stories have appeared in the 2003 O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, the 2003 Best American Nonrequired Reading anthology, failbetter, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Guernica Magazine, Narrative, and other magazines.