Biography
Chris Offutt is an American writer of short stories, novels, memoirs and television scripts. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, he attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has published collections including Kentucky Straight (1992) and Out of the Woods (1999), as well as memoirs such as The Same River Twice (1993) and No Heroes (2002).
He has written for the television series Weeds (2005), True Blood (2008) and Treme (2010), including the story and teleplay for the Treme episode 'Careless Love'. His television work received an Emmy nomination. Offutt has also received awards from the Whiting Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
