Maya Sonenberg

Maya Sonenberg’s most recent story collection Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters received the 2022 Sullivan Prize in short fiction. Her previous books and chapbooks include Cartographies (winner of the Drue Heinz Prize), Voices from the Blue Hotel, 26 Abductions, and After the Death of Shostakovich Père. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Fairy Tale Review, Electric Literature, The Collagist, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, and many other literary journals. Her essays on choreographer Merce Cunningham have been supported by the Merce Cunningham Trust and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The daughter of two painters, she was raised in New York City, and studied with Annie Dillard at Wesleyan University and with Robert Coover, John Hawkes, and Meredith Steinbach at Brown University, where she received her MFA. She is the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Washington.