Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Elizabeth Stuckey-French
Born	Elizabeth Stuckey Indiana
Occupation	short story writer, novelist, Fiction Writer
Nationality	American
Notable works	"Electric Wizard," "Mudlavia," The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa
Spouse	Ned Stuckey-French
Children	Phoebe Stuckey-French, Flannery Stuckey-French
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Elizabeth Stuckey-French is an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

Stuckey-French was born on September 2, 1958, in Little Rock. She grew up in the town of Lafayette, IN.

She graduated from Purdue University and was founding editor of the Sycamore Review.^[1] She was a James A. Michener Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop; she graduated with an MFA in 1992.

Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Five Points, Narrative.^[2]

She teaches creative writing at Florida State University.^[3]

She lives now in Tallahassee, FL with her husband Ned Stuckey-French and her two daughters.

Awards

2005 O. Henry Award for the story "Mudlavia", cited by juror Richard Russo
2004-2005 Howard Foundation grant^[4]
Indiana Arts Foundation grant
Florida Arts Foundation grant

Works

Short stories

"Junior," The Atlantic, April 1996
"Electric Wizard," The Atlantic, June 1998
"Mudlavia," The Atlantic, September 2003
The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa. Doubleday. 2000. ISBN 978-0-385-49893-7.
Tenderloin and other stories. 1992.

Novels

Mermaids on the Moon. Doubleday. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7862-4857-5.
Mudlavia, Doubleday
The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, Doubleday, 2011

Anthologies

Michael Wilkerson; Deborah Galyan, eds. (1990). "Blessing". New territory: contemporary Indiana fiction. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20595-7.

Non-fiction

Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French (2007). Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft. Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-0-321-38414-0.

Review

Richard Russo in his commentary about the selections in the 2005 O. Henry anthology, called Stuckey-French's "Mudlavia", "the one that burrowed deepest under my skin". He praised the "simplicity of its storytelling; the way its private and public stories play off each other; its fond, gentle humor; the heartbreaking, hard-won wisdom of its narrator."^[5]

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