Christine Sneed
Christine Sneed is an American novelist and short story writer, a graduate fiction professor at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign and winner of the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award, Ploughshares' Zacharis Prize for a First Book, and the 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize.[1]
Life
She grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Libertyville, Illinois.[2] She graduated from Georgetown University where she studied French language and literature, and from Indiana University with an MFA.[3]
Her work has appeared in 2008 Best American Short Stories, PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, Ploughshares, New England Review, Southern Review, Meridian, Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, Greensboro Review," and a number of other journals.
She lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Works
- "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
- "PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012," (Anchor); short story "The First Wife," April 17, 2012, ISBN 978-0307947888
- "The Best American Prize Stories 2008 (Houghton Mifflin); short story "Quality of Life," October 8, 2008, ISBN 978-0618788774
Reviews
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/books/review/little-known-facts-by-christine-sneed.html?pagewanted=all (NYTBR, cover review, February 24, 2013)
- Paul Wilner (December 26, 2010). "'Portraits ...,' by Christine Sneed: review". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- "Interview with the Second Wife" by Christine Sneed, The Collagist, Lori Ostlund