James Magruder

Fiction Writer

Author's Bio

Writers Retreats: 
MacDowell
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Ucross Residency Program
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
New Stories from the Midwest (Ohio University Press / Swallow Press, 2012)
,
Boy Crazy (Cleis Press, 2009)
Books:
Vamp Until Ready (Rattling Good Yarns Press, 2021)
,
Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall (Chelsea Station Editions, 2017)
,
Let Me See It (Northwestern University Press, 2014)
,
Sugarless (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009)
Chapbook:
Worth Our Breath (Literary House Press at Washington College, 2015)
Journals:
Arts & Letters
,
Bloom
,
Gettysburg Review
,
Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly
,
Idaho Review
,
Mary
,
New England Review
,
Normal School
,
Prairie Schooner
,
StoryQuarterly
,
Subtropics
,
The Hopkins Review
,
Third Coast
Prizes won: 

Lambda Literary Award Nomination, Debut Fiction, Sugarless

VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, Shortlist, Sugarless

William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Longlist, Sugarless

Best Book of a Musical, Head Over Heels, Outer Critics Circle Nomination

Outstanding Literary Translation of the Year, Three French Comedies, American Literary Translators Association

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Last update: Feb 03, 2024