birth_place nationality birth_date genre article_title occupation
charleston , south carolina american 1960 novel , short stories , memoir , poetry william tester
 writer , model
william tester

william tester -lrb- born april 26 , 1960 , in charleston , south carolina -rrb- is an american short story writer and novelist .
he was raised on a cattle ranch in florida and is a graduate of columbia university -lrb- b.a. , 1984 -rrb- and syracuse university -lrb- m.f.a. , 1995 -rrb- .
he published the novel `` darling '' in 1991 -lrb- isbn 0-394-56872-9 -rrb- and the story collection `` head '' -lrb- isbn 1-889330-48-5 -rrb- in 2000 .
he is the recipient of a national endowment for the arts fellowship and the mary mccarthy prize .
his short fiction and memoir excerpts have appeared in `` esquire '' , `` bomb '' , nerve , triquarterly , the quarterly , the north american review , witness and other literary journals .
he taught writing at columbia university , the state university of new york and virginia commonwealth university .
he married artist and architectural designer josefa mulaire in may 1992 .
