Lysley Tenorio

Who is Lysley Tenorio?

Lysley A. Tenorio is a Filipino-American short story writer.

Lysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Manoa, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Writer’s Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, Phillips Exeter Academy, Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Born in the Philippines, he currently lives in San Francisco, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.