Maile Chapman is an American novelist and short story writer.
Chapman was born in
Tacoma, Washington
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, and has a BA from
The Evergreen State College
The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1967, it offers a non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students have the option to design their own study towards a degree or follow a p ...
and an MFA in Fiction from
Syracuse University
Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...
. She is currently a PhD candidate and Schaeffer Fellow in Fiction at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. It includes the S ...
. Her first novel ''Your presence is requested at Suvanto'' was published by
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an Independent publisher, independent, non-profit publishing, publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the Co ...
in 2010 and was short-listed for the
Guardian First Book Award
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. Her stories have appeared in ''
A Public Space
''A Public Space'' is a nonprofit triquarterly English-language literary magazine based in Brooklyn, New York. First published in April 2006, ''A Public Space'' publishes fiction, poetry, essays and art. The magazine's Focus portfolios have exam ...
'', ''
Literary Review
''Literary Review'' is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Its offices are on Lexington Street in Soho. The magazine was edited for fourteen years by v ...
'', the ''
Mississippi Review
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'', and ''
Post Road
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''.
References
Further reading
* Review of ''Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto''.
External links
Maile Chapman at Evergreen State College website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American novelists
American women short story writers
University of Nevada, Las Vegas people
American women novelists
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American short story writers
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