Zachary Tyler Vickers

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Lecturer in creative writing

Zachary Tyler Vickers is the author of the short story collection Congratulations on Your Martyrdom! His fiction has won numerous awards, like the Kurt Vonnegut Prize, and has appeared in many prominent journals, including Boston Review and The Saturday Evening Post. His screenwriting won grand prize at the Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival and has garnered recognition from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Nashville Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, and others. He holds two MFAs: one from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and another from Temple University. You can learn more at his website.

Zachary’s media list:

  • The Big Sick
  • Everything Everywhere All At Once
  • In Bruges
  • BEEF
  • Ramy
  • Breaking Bad
  • NOPE
  • BODIES
  • Adaptation
  • Memento
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Chinatown
  • When They See Us
  • The Central Park Five by Ken Burns
  • No Country for Old Men
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