Z. Z. Packer

Zuwena "ZZ" Packer is an American writer, primarily of works of short fiction, and teacher. She is the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Whiting Award, and the 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. In 2006, she was named a 5 Under 35 Honoree by the National Book Foundation.