Melanie Rae Thon

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Melanie Rae Thon (born 1957, last name pronounced "tone") is an American fiction writer known for work that moves beyond and between genres, erasing the boundaries between them as it explores diversity, permeability, and interdependence from a multitude of human and more-than-human perspectives.

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Biography

Thon was born in Kalispell, Montana. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan in 1980 and an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University in 1982. She has taught at Emerson College, the University of Massachusetts Boston, Syracuse University, Ohio State University, and the University of Utah, where she is Professor Emeritus. [1]

Writing

Thon's most recent books, chapbooks, and fine art editions are As If Fire Could Hide Us (2023); Silence & Song (2015); The 7th Man (2015); The Bodies of Birds (2019); Lover (2019); and The Good Samaritan Speaks (2015). She is also the composer of the novels The Voice of the River (2011); Sweet Hearts (2001); Meteors in August (1990); and Iona Moon (1993); and the story collections In This Light (2011); Girls in the Grass (1991); and First, Body (1997). Her work has been included in Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996); [2] [3] three Pushcart Prize Anthologies (2003, 2006, 2008); and O. Henry Prize Stories (2006). [4] In 1996, Granta included Thon on its list of the Twenty Best Young American Novelists. [5] Thon's fiction has been translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Croatian, Finnish, Japanese, Arabic, and Farsi.

Awards

Thon is a recipient of a Fellowship in Creative Arts from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2016), [6] a Whiting Writer's Award (1997), [7] the Hopwood Award (1980), two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992, 2008), [8] the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award (2012), [9] the Gina Berriault Award (2012), [10] and a Lannan Foundation Writer's Residency in Marfa, Texas (2005). [11] In 2009, she was Virgil C. Aldrich Fellow at the Tanner Humanities Center. [12]

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Books

Stories & Essays

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