Taylor Koekkoek

Taylor Koekkoek

Taylor Koekkoek received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University and was a Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and Oregon Literary Arts, and has appeared in The Paris ReviewTin House, Glimmer TrainPloughsharesThe Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Thrillville, USA
  • By: Taylor Koekkoek
  • Narrator: Stephen Graybill
  • Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2023
  • Language: English
  • (19 ratings)
(19 ratings)
A raw and remarkable debut story collection concerning substance abuse, societal alienation, and doomed romance from a writer whose work has appeared in prestigious literary journals including The Paris Review.An amusement park employee overdoses... Read more

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