Melanie Rae Thon

Publications and Prizes

Books:

"Lost Children" (Southern Review, 2009), "Retreating Light" (Five Points, 2009), "Survivors" (Agni Press, 2009), Pushcart Prize XXXII (Pushcart Press, 2008), Sweet Hearts (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), First, Body (Henry Holt, 1998), Iona Moon (Plume, 1994), Girls in the Grass (Random House, 1991), Meteors in August (Random House, 1990)

Anthologies:

Pushcart Prize XXX (W. W. Norton & Company, 2005), Pushcart Prize XXVII (W. W. Norton & Company, 2003), The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (Scribner, 1999), Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 1996), Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 1995)

Journals:

Antaeus, Five Points, Granta, Hudson Review, Image, Ontario Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Tin House

Prizes:

National Endowment for the Arts, 1992 & 2008 Tanner Humanities Center Fellowship, 2009 Whiting Writer's Award, 1997 Lannan Foundation, Writer's Residency in Marfa, Texas, 2005 Pushcart Prize: 2003, 2006, 2008 Best American Short Stories, 1995 & 1996 O. Henry Prize Stories, 2006

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Listing last updated: July 27, 2009

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Kalispell, MT

Raised in:

Kalispell, MT