Patrick Cottrell | |
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Born | Patty Yumi Cottrell 1981 (age 42–43) South Korea |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( MFA) |
Genre | |
Notable works | Sorry to Disrupt the Peace |
Notable awards | Whiting Award |
Patrick Cottrell (born Patty Yumi Cottrell, 1981) is an American writer. He is the author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace and the winner of a 2018 Whiting Award. He teaches at the University of Denver. [1]
Cottrell was born in South Korea in 1981 and was adopted, along with two biologically unrelated younger Korean boys, into a family from the Midwestern United States. [2] He was raised in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Milwaukee. [3]
Cottrell started his first novel in his early thirties. [4] In 2012 he received his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [5] After moving from New York to Los Angeles, he completed the novel in 2016. [6] The resulting book, a "stylized contemporary noir" titled Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, was published by McSweeney's in 2017. [7] Cottrell has called the book "an anti-memoir". [8] It tells the story of Helen, a woman adopted from Korea at a young age, who returns to her adoptive parents' home in Milwaukee after her adoptive brother's suicide. [9] Writing for The Rumpus, Liza St. James called the book "marvelously interior" and praised the writing as "discursive and associative and gripping all at once". [10] The Guardian called the book "electrifying in its freshness" [11] and the San Francisco Chronicle called it "a strange and lovely thing". [12] Sorry to Disrupt the Peace won a National Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Best First Book in the Fiction category. [13] It also won Barnes & Noble’s 2017 Discover Award for Fiction. [14]
In 2018 Cottrell received the Whiting Award in fiction, which is given to promising writers in the early stages of their careers. [15] [16] The selection committee said that his writing "opens up fresh lines of questioning in the old interrogations of identity". [3]
Cottrell came out as transgender in 2021. [17]
Patrick Cottrell | |
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Born | Patty Yumi Cottrell 1981 (age 42–43) South Korea |
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | American |
Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( MFA) |
Genre | |
Notable works | Sorry to Disrupt the Peace |
Notable awards | Whiting Award |
Patrick Cottrell (born Patty Yumi Cottrell, 1981) is an American writer. He is the author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace and the winner of a 2018 Whiting Award. He teaches at the University of Denver. [1]
Cottrell was born in South Korea in 1981 and was adopted, along with two biologically unrelated younger Korean boys, into a family from the Midwestern United States. [2] He was raised in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Milwaukee. [3]
Cottrell started his first novel in his early thirties. [4] In 2012 he received his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [5] After moving from New York to Los Angeles, he completed the novel in 2016. [6] The resulting book, a "stylized contemporary noir" titled Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, was published by McSweeney's in 2017. [7] Cottrell has called the book "an anti-memoir". [8] It tells the story of Helen, a woman adopted from Korea at a young age, who returns to her adoptive parents' home in Milwaukee after her adoptive brother's suicide. [9] Writing for The Rumpus, Liza St. James called the book "marvelously interior" and praised the writing as "discursive and associative and gripping all at once". [10] The Guardian called the book "electrifying in its freshness" [11] and the San Francisco Chronicle called it "a strange and lovely thing". [12] Sorry to Disrupt the Peace won a National Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Best First Book in the Fiction category. [13] It also won Barnes & Noble’s 2017 Discover Award for Fiction. [14]
In 2018 Cottrell received the Whiting Award in fiction, which is given to promising writers in the early stages of their careers. [15] [16] The selection committee said that his writing "opens up fresh lines of questioning in the old interrogations of identity". [3]
Cottrell came out as transgender in 2021. [17]