Michelle Hoover is an American writer and college instructor. She is the author of the novels The Quickening (2010)[1] and Bottomland (2016).[2]
Biography edit
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 edit
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]
References edit
- ^ The Quickening. ISBN 978-1-59051-346-0.
- ^ "Bottomland". Grove Atlantic. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ a b "Attend | Michelle Hoover". www.bostonbookfest.org. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ a b "Writers' Corner". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Michelle Hoover | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ "Grove Atlantic: Author Biography". groveatlantic.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ Fay, Sarah (July 30, 2010). "Book Review - The Quickening - By Michelle Hoover". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ a b "Interview with Michelle Hoover | GrubStreet". grubstreet.org. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ "2010 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Literary (Adult Fiction)". Foreword Reviews. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
- ^ "Grove Atlantic: Bottomland". www.groveatlantic.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.