George Saunders
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer, acclaimed for his two books, Civilwarland in Bad Decline (1996) and Pastoralia (2000), both collections of short stories. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker and Harper's.
Saunders was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. In 1981, he received a B.S. in geophysical engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. In 1988, he obtained an M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University.
From 1989 to 1996 he worked for Radian International, an environmental engineering firm in Rochester, New York as a technical writer and geophysical engineer. He has worked in Sumatra with an oil exploration crew.
Since 1997, Saunders has been on the faculty of Syracuse where he teaches creative writing.