Michelle Hoover
Michelle Hoover is an American writer and college instructor. She is the author of The Quickening, a 2010 novel.
Biography[]
She was born in Ames, Iowa, but currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] She was selected as the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University.[1] She was a MacDowell Fellow from the MacDowell Colony.[1][2] She has taught writing at Boston University and, since 2014, teaches at Brandeis University as the Fannie Hurst writer-in-residence.[3][4] She also teaches at GrubStreet, where she co-founded the Novel Incubator program.[4][5] She has an MFA from University of Massachusetts Amherst.[4] In 2014 she was selected as the National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship.[2][4]
Works[]
Hoover is a contributor to the anthology.[1] She has also published short stories and novel excerpts in literary journals, including Prairie Schooner, Confrontation, StoryQuarterly, and The Massachusetts Review.[1] In 2005 she won the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction.
Her novel, The Quickening, was published in 2010 by Other Press (ISBN 978-1590513460). It was based on her own family history and a journal her grandmother, Melva Current, wrote during the Great Depression.[1][6][7] It was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, was a finalist for the Indies Choice Debut in 2010, was a finalist in the Literary Fiction category for 2010 ,[8] and was a 2010 Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" pick.[3] Poets and Writers magazine picked The Quickening as one of its Top 5 Debut novels in 2010.[7]
Her second novel, Bottomland (ISBN 978-0802124715), was published on March 1, 2016, by Grove Press, Black Cat. It was chosen as the 2017 All Iowa Reads selection.[9]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ a b "Attend | Michelle Hoover". www.bostonbookfest.org. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ a b "Writers' Corner". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Michelle Hoover | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ "Grove Atlantic: Author Biography". groveatlantic.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ Fay, Sarah (July 30, 2010). "Book Review - The Quickening - By Michelle Hoover". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ a b "Interview with Michelle Hoover | GrubStreet". grubstreet.org. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- ^ "2010 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Literary (Adult Fiction)". . Retrieved November 1, 2018.
- ^ "Grove Atlantic: Bottomland". www.groveatlantic.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2015. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
- Living people
- 21st-century American women writers
- Writers from Boston
- Writers from Iowa
- Boston University faculty
- Brandeis University faculty
- University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni