| Maud Newton | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dallas, Texas |
| Education | University of Florida |
| Occupation | Writer and Blogger |
Rebecca "Maud" Newton[1] is a writer, blogger, book reviewer and former lawyer born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Miami, Florida.[2] Newton was raised in a fundamentalist Pentecostal household and attended college and law school at the University of Florida and currently resides in Brooklyn.[3][4][5]
She was awarded the 2009 Narrative Prize for "When the Flock Changed," an excerpt from her novel-in-progress.[6] In 2009 she also wrote an essay for The Los Angeles Times about her decision to write a novel instead of a memoir.[7] Her book reviews and opinions have been published in venues such as the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Bookforum, American Prospect The Awl and NPR.[8] Her essays and fiction have been published in Narrative Magazine, Granta, Swink, Eyeshot, Pindeldyboz, Maisonneuve, Mr. Bellers Neighborhood and other venues, including the anthologies When I Was a Loser and Love is a Four-Letter Word.[9]
In 2004 she received the Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Award from the City College of New York and in June 2008 she won second prize in the Narrative Magazine Love Story Contest.[10]