Cathy Mellett

Fiction Writer

Ann Arbor, MI
Michigan US
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Author's Bio

Cathy Mellett's short stories and memoirs have been published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Ohio State's The Journal, The Literary Review, Midwestern Gothic, The Rumpus, The Yale Review, and many other literary magazines. She has received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant for Fiction as well as residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, and Villa Montalvo. She recently completed a memoir, and Longform selected one of her short stories as its Fiction Pick of the Week. 

Writers Retreats: 

Publications & Prizes

Chapbook:
Saturday Afternoon in My Kitchen (Poetry New York, 1999)
Journals:
Animal: Beast of a Literary Magazine
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Atlas & Alice
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Bull: Men's Fiction
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Carbon Culture Review
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Hobart
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Pif Magazine
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The Great American Literary Magazine
Prizes won: 

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant for Fiction Writing

University of Indiana Writers Conference Humor Award (Short Story)

Dappled Things J.F. Powers Short Story Honorable Mention

New Millennium Writings Honorable Mention

Villa Montalvo Residency - Annual Fiction Award

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Rebecca Makkai Kazuo Ishiguro Elizabeth Strout Susan Orlean Min Jin Lee Anthony Doerr Pearl S. Buck Willa Cather John Steinbeck So many more . . .

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania
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Last update: Sep 16, 2023