Michelle Hoover

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Michelle Hoover is an American writer and college instructor. She is the author of the novels The Quickening (2010) [1] and Bottomland (2016). [2]

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Biography

She was born in Ames, Iowa, but currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. [3] She was selected as the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University. [3] She was a MacDowell Fellow from the MacDowell Colony. [3] [4] She has taught writing at Boston University and, since 2014, teaches at Brandeis University as the Fannie Hurst writer-in-residence. [5] [6] She also teaches at GrubStreet, where she co-founded the Novel Incubator program. [6] [7] She has an MFA from University of Massachusetts Amherst. [6] In 2014 she was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship. [4] [6]

Works

Hoover is a contributor to the Best New American Voices anthology. [3] She has also published short stories and novel excerpts in literary journals, including Prairie Schooner, Confrontation, StoryQuarterly, and The Massachusetts Review. [3] In 2005 she won the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction.

Her novel, The Quickening, was published in 2010 by Other Press ( ISBN   978-1590513460). It was based on her own family history and a journal her grandmother, Melva Current, wrote during the Great Depression. [3] [8] [9] It was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, was a finalist for the Indies Choice Debut in 2010, was a finalist in the Literary Fiction category for Foreword Magazine's 2010 Book of the Year Awards, [10] and was a 2010 Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" pick. [5] Poets and Writers magazine picked The Quickening as one of its Top 5 Debut novels in 2010. [9]

Her second novel, Bottomland ( ISBN   978-0802124715), was published on March 1, 2016, by Grove Press, Black Cat. It was chosen as the 2017 All Iowa Reads selection. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ The Quickening. ISBN   978-1-59051-346-0.
  2. ↑ "Bottomland". Grove Atlantic. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  4. 1 2 "Attend | Michelle Hoover". www.bostonbookfest.org. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Writers' Corner". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Michelle Hoover | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Grove Atlantic: Author Biography". groveatlantic.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  8. ↑ Fay, Sarah (July 30, 2010). "Book Review - The Quickening - By Michelle Hoover". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  9. 1 2 "Interview with Michelle Hoover | GrubStreet". grubstreet.org. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  10. ↑ "2010 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Literary (Adult Fiction)". Foreword Reviews . Retrieved November 1, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Grove Atlantic: Bottomland". www.groveatlantic.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
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