Monica McFawn (born Monica McFawn Robinson) is an American writer. Her story collection, Bright Shards of Someplace Else, won the 2013 Flannery O'Connor Award. McFawn is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, and her work has appeared in journals such as the Georgia Review , Confrontation , Gargoyle , Web Conjunctions , Conduit , Passages North , and Hotel Amerika . She received her MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan University, and has published both fiction and poetry. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Northern Michigan University. [1]
Her great uncle is John Hopfield, originator of the Hopfield network.