Yannick Murphy is an American

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and

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. She is a recipient of the Whiting Award, National Endowment for the Arts award, Chesterfield Screenwriting award, MacDowell Colony fellowship, and the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award.

Life

She grew up in Greenwich Village, New York. She attended

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, I.S. 70, and

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where she took a class with Frank McCourt. She graduated with a B.A. from

Hampshire College Hampshire College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges ...

and an M.A. in English from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

and studied with

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. She lived in New York and California. She now lives in

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, with her husband, a horse doctor, and their three children. Her PEN New England Award winning novel ''The Call'' is based on her husband's life as a large animal veterinarian.

Awards

* 1988

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...

Literature Fellowships * 1990

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

* 2012 Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award for ''The Call'' * Chesterfield Screenwriting award *

MacDowell Colony MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The program was founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDo ...

fellowship

Works

Books

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Children's books

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Anthologies

*''Pushcart Prize XXXIX 2014'', Pushcart Press (November 12, 2014) *''Best Non-Required Reading 2009'', Mariner Books (October 8, 2009) *''The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007'', Anchor Books (May 8, 2007)

Stories

"Now is the Time", Big, Big Wednesday, 2017"The Prescription", The Literary Review, 2016"Too Much for Adele", Conjunctions Online, 2016"Forty Words", Zoetrope, 2016
*"The Good Word," ''One Story'', Issue 109, September 2008 Essays * "The Other End of the Line

* ttps://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/indexes/2015/11/15/magazine/index.html "A Real Vermonter" New York Times Magazine Lives Column, November 15, 2015
"Home and Away" New York Times Magazine Lives Column, February 19, 2006
* "The Big Kahuna" ''Woof!: Writers on Dogs'', Penguin Books (August 26, 2009)

References

External links

Author's website"An Interview with Yannick Murphy", ''Bookslut'', January 2008"Interview with Yannick Murphy", ''Emerging Writers Forum'', Dan Wickett, 5/23/2006"Bookworm: Yannick Murphy", ''KCRW'', June 15, 2006, Michael Silverblatt
* The Bat Segundo Show (radio interviews)
2006 (34 minutes)2007 (34 minutes)2011 (27 minutes)
* http://nyjournalofbooks.com/author/yannick-murphy uthor profile and link to book reviewbr>Profile at The Whiting Foundation
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