Christine Sneed

Christine Sneed is an American novelist and short story writer, a graduate fiction professor at Northwestern University and for Regis University's low-residency MFA program. She is the recipient of the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award, Ploughshares' Zacharis Prize for a First Book, the Society of Midland Authors Fiction Prize, and the 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize.[1]

Life

Born September 24, 1971, she grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Libertyville, Illinois [2] and graduated from Georgetown University where she studied French language and literature, and from Indiana University with an MFA in creative writing.[3]

Her work has appeared in 2008 Best American Short Stories, 2012 O.Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, Ploughshares, New England Review, Southern Review, Meridian, Glimmer Train, Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, Greensboro Review, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and a number of other periodicals.

She lives in Pasadena, California.

Works
  • The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury), September 13, 2016. ISBN 978-1620406953
  • Paris, He Said (Bloomsbury), May 5, 2015. ISBN 978-1620406922
  • Little Known Facts (Bloomsbury), February 12, 2013. ISBN 978-1608199587
  • Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry (University of Massachusetts Press), November 30, 2010. ISBN 978-1-55849-858-7
  • O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 (Anchor); short story "The First Wife," April 17, 2012, ISBN 978-0307947888
  • The Best American Short Stories 2008 (Houghton Mifflin); short story "Quality of Life," October 8, 2008, ISBN 978-0618788774

Reviews

Awards and Honors
  • Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award (2010 and 2017)
  • Illinois Reads selection (2016)
  • Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, Finalist (2016)
  • Society of Midland Authors Award, Best Adult Fiction (2013)
  • 21st Century Award, Chicago Public Library Foundation (2013)
  • Chicago Magazine's Best New Book by a Local Author (2013)
  • O. Henry Prize for the short story (2012)
  • John C. Zacharis Award—Ploughshares' First Book Award (2011)
  • Art Seidenbaum/Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Finalist, First fiction category (2011)
  • Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, long-listed (2011)
  • Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction (2009)

References
  1. http://www.awpwriter.org/contests/as2009.htm
  2. An Interview with Zacharis Award Winner Christine Sneed Archived 2012-07-15 at Archive.today, Ploughshares
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2011-11-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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