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Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Public address:

Hermitage , PA

Pennsylvania US

Email:

gmmonks@aol.com

Bio:

I live in Hermitage, Pennsylvania with my husband, having recently moved from California. I am a psychologist. I am politically active, support diversity, enjoy the arts and traveling, gardening. I'm about half fluent in French, admire immigrants, and occasionaly swear up a storm.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

A few of my favorite authors include: Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Ernest Hemingway, Sandra Cisneros, Georgia Hunter, Jack Kerouac for his style rather than his content, Frank McCourt, and James Herriot.

Twitter/X:

@gmmonks

Born in:

San Francisco, CA

California

Raised in:

CA

California

Website:

https://gmmonks.blog [2]

Prizes won:

Awards with publication include: one of two finalists in the 2020 Breakwater Review Fiction Contest, and runner-up in the 2016 Big Wonderful Press Funny Poem contest. I was a finalist in the 2020 Arts and Letters Unclassifiable Fiction Contest and I received an honorable mention in the 2016 New Millennium Writings Award competition. I won the Poetry Prize at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference.

My work has been published in Birdland Journal, The Hunger, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, The RavensPerch, Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, Kansas City Voices, Alehouse, and elsewhere. My debut novel was published by Bedazzled Ink.

What I'm reading now:

The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht

Writers Retreats:

Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Any