Mary Caponegro
Mary Caponegro (born November 21, 1956) is an American experimental fiction writer whose collections include Tales from the Next Village, The Star Cafe, Five Doubts, The Complexities of Intimacy, and All Fall Down. Her stories appear regularly in Conjunctions and in other periodicals. She was awarded the in 1992, and is also the recipient of , the , and the . She has taught at Brown University, RISD, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Syracuse University. She is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor of Writing and Literature at Bard College. Her work has been praised for its syntactic complexity and its surreal, fabulist content.
Books[]
- Addressing the Negative (Open Studio, 1981)
- Tales from the Next Village (Lost Roads, 1985)
- The Star Cafe (Scribner, 1990)
- Five Doubts (Marsilio, 1998)
- The Complexities of Intimacy (Coffee House, 2001)
- All Fall Down (Coffee House, 2009)
External links[]
- Interview with Mary Caponegro (Astrophil Press)
- Interview with Mary Caponegro (Bookworm)
- An Interview of Mary Caponegro in Six Questions (Cairn)
| hide Authority control  | |
|---|---|
| General | |
| National libraries | |
| Other | |
Categories:
- American short story writers
- Bard College alumni
- Bard College faculty
- Fabulists
- Living people
- Brown University faculty
- Syracuse University faculty
- Rhode Island School of Design faculty
- 1956 births