barbara Shoup

Fiction Writer

Indianapolis, IN
Indiana US
Email: 
barbshoup@gmail.com
Website: 
www.barbarashoup.com
Twitter/X: 
@barbshoup
RSS feed: 
www.barbarashoup.blogspot.com

Author's Bio

Barbara Shoup is the author of eight novels for adults and young adults, most recently An American Tune, and Looking for Jack Kerouac, and the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process. Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. She is the recipient of the PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Authors Award,  and fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission. A high school creative writing teacher for twenty-five years, she is currently is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center and a faculty member of Art Workshop International. She lives in Indianapolis.

 

Writers Retreats: 
Ragdale

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Looking for Jack Kerouac (Engine Books, 2014)
,
An American Tune (Indiana University Press, 2012)
,
Novel Ideas: Contemporary Writers Share the Creative Process (University of Georgia Press, 2009)
,
Everything You Want (Llewellyn, 2008)
,
Stranded in Harmony (Hyperion Books, 1997)
,
Wish You Were Here (Hyperion Books, 1994)
,
Night Watch (Harper & Row, 1982)
Prizes won: 

Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Award: 2012; PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship: 2006; Individual Artist Program Grant, Indiana Arts Commission: 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2018; Lilly Endowment Creative Renewal Fellowship, 2000, 2007; Vermeer’s Daughter: “School Library Journal” Best Adult Book for High School Students; Stranded in Harmony: American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults, 1999 Young Adults Choice Book, International Reading Association; 1998; Finalist, Great Lakes Book Award for Young Adult Fiction, 1998, Wish You Were Here: VOYA Perfect Ten List, 2001; American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults, 1995; Notable Young Adult Book, Bulletin for the Center for Children’s Books, 1994; Finalist, Midland Society of Authors Children’s Book Award, 1995; Best Young Adult Books, Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA), 1995;  “Working a Jigsaw”, Pushcart Prize nomination, 1994.

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
Armenian
Born in: 
Hammond, IN
Indiana
Raised in: 
Hammond, IN
Indiana
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Last update: Jul 21, 2019