MaryEllen Beveridge

Fiction Writer

Madison, CT
Connecticut US
Email: 
beveridgemaryellen@yahoo.com

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: 
CT
Connecticut
Raised in: 
CT
Connecticut
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Last update: Mar 24, 2021