Maureen Gibbon
Bio
Maureen Gibbon is the author of Swimming Sweet Arrow, a novel; Magdalena, a collection of prose poems; and a new novel, Thief, published in 2010 in the U.S. by Sarah Crichton Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Atlantic Books in the U.K.; and Text in Australia. Thief is also forthcoming from Bompiani in Italy.
A graduate of Barnard College and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Gibbon was awarded a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship in 2001 and Loft McKnight Artist Fellowships in 1992 and 1999. In 2006, she received a Mill Foundation Artist Residency at the Santa Fe Arts Institute.
Magdalena (originally titled Kicking Horse My True Husband) was a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and National Poetry Series in 1995 and 1996, and the Agnes Starret Lynch/University of Pittsburgh Press prize in 1999.
Maureen Gibbon's writing has been translated into French, German, Norwegian, Spanish and Hungarian. Fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Mail, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Pitsburgh Post-Gazette, Playboy, Psychologies, California Quarterly, Water~Stone Review, and on nerve.com and basenotes.net.
She lives in northern Minnesota, where she teaches writing.
A graduate of Barnard College and the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Gibbon was awarded a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship in 2001 and Loft McKnight Artist Fellowships in 1992 and 1999. In 2006, she received a Mill Foundation Artist Residency at the Santa Fe Arts Institute.
Magdalena (originally titled Kicking Horse My True Husband) was a finalist for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and National Poetry Series in 1995 and 1996, and the Agnes Starret Lynch/University of Pittsburgh Press prize in 1999.
Maureen Gibbon's writing has been translated into French, German, Norwegian, Spanish and Hungarian. Fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Mail, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Pitsburgh Post-Gazette, Playboy, Psychologies, California Quarterly, Water~Stone Review, and on nerve.com and basenotes.net.
She lives in northern Minnesota, where she teaches writing.
