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
The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor.
Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by brin ...
. McFawn is the recipient of a
National Endowment for the Arts
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Fellowship in Literature, and her work has appeared in journals such as the ''
Georgia Review
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'', ''
Confrontation
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Gargoyle
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Web Conjunctions'', ''
Conduit
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Engineering systems
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Passages North
''Passages North'' is an American literary magazine published by Northern Michigan University. Essays that have appeared in ''Passages North'' have been recognized in the anthology, ''The Best American Essays'', on numerous occasions.Michigan Jour ...
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Hotel Amerika''. She received her MFA in Poetry from
Western Michigan University
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, and has published both fiction and poetry. She is an Assistant Professor of English at
Northern Michigan University.
Her great uncle is
John Hopfield
John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is now more commonly known as the Hopfield network.
Biography
Hopfield was born in 1933 to Pol ...
, originator of the
Hopfield network.
Published works
Books
* ''Bright Shards of Someplace Else'', story collection from the University of Georgia Press, 2014
References
External links
Official websiteInterview at American Short Fiction"A Country Woman", published in ''Passages North''
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American women writers
Living people
Northern Michigan University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Western Michigan University alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women