The Port Townsend Writers’ Conference is excited to welcome Daniel Orozco to the faculty in 2019. With his unique and sharp understanding of craft, workshop participants will have the opportunity to delve deeper into the craft of the short story. Daniel Orozco is the author of Orientation and Other Stories (Farrar Straus Giroux). His work has appeared in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and more.

“Every short story I write begins as a kind of challenge, an exercise. I’m very much engaged with figuring out a narrative problem, which is a good thing for a writer to do because it tests the limits, stretches the writerly muscles.” – Daniel Orozco, interview in The Masters Review

In his Conference workshop session, he will help writers to take on the mantle of “The Cult of the Inverted Checkmark” and examine the craft through reading, discussion and writing.

Daniel Orozco is the author of Orientation and Other Stories (Farrar Straus Giroux). His work has appeared in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories and Pushcart Prize anthologies, and in Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope, and others. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, as well as fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Idaho.