Jeanne M. Leiby

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Jeanne Leiby (born 1964) is an American teacher, fiction writer and literary magazine editor. Leiby's short stories have been published in several U.S. literary journals, including Fiction, Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review, and New Orleans Review. In 2000, she won the Poets and Writers Writer Exchange. Her first collection of short stories, Downriver, was published by Carolina Wren Press as the 2006 winner of the Doris Bakwin prize.[1]. Leiby has also served as fiction editor of Black Warrior Review and as the Editor in Chief of the Florida Review (2004-2007). In Spring 2008, she will take over as editor of The Southern Review at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[2]

Leiby grew up downriver Detroit. She earned a BA at the University of Michigan, an MA at the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and an MFA at the University of Alabama.[3]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Downriver (2007) Carolina Wren Press/Winner of the Doris Bawkin Prize.
  • "Docks" in Nimrod. Honorable mention in the Katherine Ann Porter Prize.
  • "Family Meeting" in Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring 2003
  • "Pink" in Witness
  • "A Place Alone" in Fiction
  • "Henrietta and the Headache" in Berkeley Fiction Review
  • "Days of the Renovation" in Seattle Review
  • "Vinegar Tasting" in Indiana Review
  • "Living With A Gun Runner," winner of Flyway Fiction Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize
  • "Days of the Renovation," second place in the Michael Gearhart Poetry Prize, SunDog: The Southeast Review

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2007 Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival: MFA writing program at UNCG
  2. ^ UCF English Department: Faculty and Staff Information
  3. ^ Carolina Wren Press ยป new authors, new audiences
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