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Cheryl Pappas [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Newton, MA
Massachusetts US
Email: 
fabulistpappas@gmail.com
Bio: 

Cheryl Pappas is a writer from Boston. She is the author of the flash fiction collection The Clarity of Hunger. Her stories have been published in Swamp Pink (formerly Crazyhorse), Wigleaf, Hayden's Ferry Review, Juked, HAD, Smokelong Quarterly, and more. She is at work on her first novel. She was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2023 and an artist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2022.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Favorite authors: 
Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Carmen Maria Machado, Colette, Franz Kafka, Rumi, Amy Hempel
Born in: 
Litchfield, NH
New Hampshire
Raised in: 
Litchfield , NH
New Hampshire
Website: 
https://cherylpappas.net [2]
Prizes won: 

MacDowell Fellowship
Massachusetts Cultural Council grant

Education: 
Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College
What I'm reading now: 
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
Darling Girl by Liz Michalski
Writers Retreats: 
MacDowell

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