Lindsay Sproul

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Lindsay Sproul
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Alma mater Columbia University
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Lindsay Sproul is an American writer, editor, and educator. She is the current editor-in-chief of the New Orleans Review and an assistant professor of creative writing at Loyola University New Orleans. Her debut young adult novel, We Were Promised Spotlights, was published in 2020.

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Education

Sproul received her bachelor of arts degree from Beloit College, her master of fine arts degree from Columbia University and her doctor of philosophy degree from Florida State University. [1]

Career

Sproul is an assistant professor of creative writing at Loyola University New Orleans, where she specializes in young adult fiction, queer literature and theory, gender studies and creative nonfiction. [1]

Sproul has edited for the New Orleans Review since 2017, and became the magazine's editor-in-chief in late 2019. [2] [3]

Her short fiction has been published in Epoch, [4] Glimmer Train, [5] Witness, [6] Porchlight, [7] Massachusetts Review, [8] Beloit Fiction Journal, [9] and The Los Angeles Review. [10] Sproul has received fellowships from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2019 and the MacDowell Colony in 2017 and 2020. [11]

We Were Promised Spotlights, a queer coming-of-age young adult novel, was published on March 24, 2020, by Penguin Random House. [12] It earned positive reviews in Kirkus , [13] The Massachusetts Review , [14] School Library Journal , [15] and Booklist . [16]

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References

  1. 1 2 Lindsay Sproul, College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "Interview with Editor in Chief of New Orleans Review," Duotrope, published February 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  3. ↑ About, New Orleans Review. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. ↑ "Corvis McClellan" by Lindsay Sproul. Epoch, vol. 64, no. 1, published 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. ↑ Contributing Authors and Artists, Glimmer Train. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  6. ↑ "Jack Armstrong" by Lindsay Sproul. Witness, vol. XXVIII, no. 2, Summer 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  7. ↑ "Horseshoes" by Lindsay Sproul. Porchlight: A Literary Magazine, issue 4, Spring 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "Playing France" by Lindsay Sproul. Massachusetts Review, vol. 53, issue 3, Fall 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "The Greener Grass" by Lindsay Sproul, Beloit Fiction Journal, vol. 22, Spring 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  10. ↑ "The Invisible Hand" by Lindsay Sproul, The Los Angeles Review, September 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  11. ↑ "MacDowell Colony-Artist Profile." Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  12. ↑ "We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay Sproul: 9781524738532 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  13. ↑ Review: "We Were Promised Spotlights," Kirkus Reviews, 21 December 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  14. ↑ Demas, Corinne. "Book Review: "In Spite of Herself - A Review of 'We Were Promised Spotlights,'" Massachusetts Review, 11 May 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  15. ↑ MacGregor, Amanda. "Book Review: We Were Promised Spotlights by Lindsay Sproul," School Library Journal, 28 January 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  16. ↑ Reagan, Maggie. "We Were Promised Spotlights." Sproul, Lindsay. Booklist Review, 1 Mar 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
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