Mary Winsor

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

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Author's Bio

Mary Winsor is a writer from the Southwestern U.S., the setting for most of her fiction is set. She was recently awarded a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation (2025) for the completion of a novel in progress. Her essay "Rules of Flight" was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2023. Other work can be found or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, As We Convene: An Anthology of Time and Place, The Cutleaf Reader Vol. 3 (EastOver Press), Threepenny Review, Northwest Review, Blue Mesa Review, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Mary is a graduate of the MFA program at George Mason University. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Salt Lake Community College.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthology:
Cutleaf (EastOver Press, 2023)
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La Presa
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Fiction

Anthology:
As We Convene (Inked in Gray, 2024)
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Northwest Review
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Prizes won: 
  • Elizabeth George Foundation grant (2025)
  • Finalist (Prose- Nonfiction), Black River Chapbook Contest, Black LawrencePress (Spring 2023)
  • Finalist (Prose - Fiction and Nonfiction), Black River Chapbook Contest, Black Lawrence Press (Fall 2022)
  • Finalist, Nonfiction Prize, Witness Magazine (2022)
  • First Place, Fiction Prize, Blue Mesa Review (2020)
  • Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editor's Prize, Missouri Review (2019)
  • Finalist, Tobias Wolff Fiction Award, Bellingham Review (2019)
  • Emerging Writer Award for Nonfiction, Ploughshares (2014)

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
James by Percival Everett, What Start Bad a Mornin by Carol Mitchell

More Information

Born in: 
Grand Canyon, AZ
Arizona
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Last update: Feb 19, 2025