Toni Graham

Toni Graham was (born Toni Avila in 1945 in San Francisco) is an American fiction writer. She is a Professor of English at Oklahoma State University; she also serves as Editor and Fiction Editor for The Cimarron Review.

Biography

Graham earned an MFA in fiction writing from San Francisco State University. She has taught fiction writing at Oklahoma State since 2000 and is Professor of English/Creative Writing. She has served as Editor for the Cimarron Review since 2011 and as Fiction Editor from 2000 to the present.

Before being appointed to the faculty at Oklahoma State, Graham taught creative writing at a number of California universities, including University of San Francisco; Santa Clara University; University of California, Santa Cruz; and Chico State.

Books

The Suicide Club: Stories, University of Georgia Press, 2015

Waiting for Elvis, Leapfrog Press, 2005 The Daiquiri Girls, University of Massachusetts Press, 1998

Awards

Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, 2014, for The Suicide Club
John Gardner Book Award, 2006, for Waiting for Elvis
Grace Paley Award for Short Fiction, 1997, for The Daiquiri Girls

Partial List of Reviews of Books

Storyville, May 11, 2016 http://storyvilleapp.com/story/gods-playground/

San Francisco Book Review, November 13, 2015 – posted on Amazon.com - This short book is powerful and the stories are moving, and it is a quick read. Toni Graham does an excellent job not making it a complete sob story, but showing that these people have lives; even if it is in the middle of Oklahoma. (Kevin Winter San Francisco Book Review)

The Booklist Reader, October 7, 2015 http://www.booklistreader.com/2015/10/07/books-and-authors/short-story-contests-and-their-winners/

Goodreads, online - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159630-the-suicide-club

Publishers Weekly, July 20, 2015 - http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8203-4850-6

Bookslut, May, 2005 - http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2005_05_005370.php

The Washington Post, March 20, 2005 - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45485-2005Mar17.html Washington Post Media Mix February 16, 2005 Publishers Weekly, January 31, 2005 - http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9728984-4-7 Kirkus Reviews, January 1, 2005 - https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/toni-graham/waiting-for-elvis/

Oyster Boy Review 12, January, 2000 - http://www.oysterboyreview.org/issue/12/HarrisonL-Graham.html

Boston Review Microreviews, April/May, 1999

TLS (London Times Literary Supplement), March 5, 1999

San Jose Mercury, February 28, 1999 New York Times Book Review, January 10, 1999 - https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/bib/990110.rv034138.html

San Francisco Metropolitan, January 19, 1999

SF Bay Guardian Literary Supplement, November 11, 1998

Kirkus Reviews, August 10, 1998 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/toni-graham-2/the-daiquiri-girls-2