MaryEllen Beveridge

Fiction Writer

Madison, CT

Connecticut US

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Author's Bio

MFA with Honors, Iowa Writers' Workshop. Former faculty member, Emerson College. Teaching experience: fiction writing and 19th and 20th C. American literature.

Education:

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Permeable Boundaries: Stories (Fomite, 2021)

After the Hunger: Stories (Fomite, 2020)

Journals:

13th Moon

Ascent

Carolina Quarterly

Cottonwood Review

Crab Orchard Review

Eclipse

Emrys Journal

Georgia Review

Green Hills Literary Lantern

Limestone

Lindenwood Review

Louisiana Literature

New Orleans Review

Normal School

Notre Dame Review

Other Voices

Owen Wister Review

Pembroke Magazine

South Carolina Review

the new renaissance

War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities

Prizes won:

Semi-Finalist, 2018 Iowa Short Fiction Award, Universiy of Iowa Press; Finalist, 2013 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Ficton, University of Georgia Press; Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2012 and 1991; Finalist Award in Fiction, Massachusstts Cutural Council/ Massachusetts Artists Foundation, 1990

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Marilynne Robinson, Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, Kate Chopin, Leo Tolstoy, Joan Didion

What I'm reading now:

Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, Jack by Marilynne Robinson, The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Adults, Schools, Seniors, Teachers, Veterans, Women

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Connecticut

Raised in:

Connecticut

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Last update: Mar 24, 2021