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MaryEllen Beveridge [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Madison, CT
Connecticut US
Email: 
beveridgemaryellen@yahoo.com
Bio: 

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

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Marilynne Robinson, Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, Kate Chopin, Leo Tolstoy, Joan Didion
Born in: 
CT
Connecticut
Raised in: 
CT
Connecticut
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

Education: 
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
What I'm reading now: 
Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Schools
Seniors
Teachers
Veterans
Women
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