ZZ Packer

ZZ Packer
ZZ Packer at the 2009 Texas Book Festival.
BornZuwena Packer
(1973-01-12) January 12, 1973
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Period2000-present

Zuwena "ZZ" Packer (born January 12, 1973) is an American writer, primarily of works of short fiction. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a Whiting Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book Drinking Coffee Elsewhere won the Commonwealth First Fiction Award and an ALEX award. It became a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award and was selected for the Today Show Book Club by John Updike.