Mary McMyne

Poet, Fiction Writer

Sault Sainte Marie, MI
Michigan US
Email: 
mmcmyne@nyu.edu
Website: 
marymcmyne.com
Twitter/X: 
@marymcmyne

Author's Bio

Mary McMyne's debut novel, The Book of Gothel, is forthcoming from Redhook and Orbit UK in 2022. Her poems and short stories have appeared in magazines like Gulf Coast, Redivider, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Her debut poetry chapbook, Wolf Skin (Dancing Girl Press, 2014), won the Elgin Chapbook Award. Her other awards include the Faulkner Prize for a Novel-in-Progress, an NEA fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, and a grant from the Sustainable Arts Foundation to research The Book of Gothel in Germany. Her second novel is forthcoming from Redhook and Orbit UK in 2024. 

She is an associate professor of creative writing at Lake Superior State University.

Education: 
New York University MFA
Literary agent: 
Samantha Farkas, Jill Grinberg Literary Management

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Book:
The Book of Gothel (Hachette Book Group, 2022)

Poetry

Chapbook:
Wolf Skin (Dancing Girl Press, Chicago, 2014)
Prizes won: 
  • 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Parent Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center for The Book of Gothel
  • 2015 Elgin Chapbook Award for Wolf Skin
  • 2014 Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, Second Place
  • 2013 Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award in Fiction for The Book of Gothel
  • 2007 Faulkner Prize for a Novel-in-Progress 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Shirley Jackson, Angela Carter, Tana French

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, Children, Teachers, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Baton Rouge
Raised in: 
Baton Rouge, LA
Louisiana
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Last update: Nov 13, 2021