Monica Ferrell
Monica Ferrell | |
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| Born | Shana Monica Ferrell November 8, 1975 New Delhi, India |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University Columbia University School of the Arts (MFA) |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Spouse | Michael Dumanis |
Shana Monica Ferrell (born November 8, 1975) is an American poet and fiction writer.[1] In 2007, she was awarded the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for her debut book of poems, Beasts for the Chase.[2][3] Her novel, The Answer Is Always Yes, was published by Random House in 2008.[4][5][6] Her third book, a poetry collection entitled You Darling Thing, was published by Four Way Books in 2018 and was named a New & Noteworthy selection by The New York Times.[7][8][9][10] It became a finalist for the Believer Book Award in Poetry[11] and for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.[12]
Early life and education[edit]
Ferrell was born in New Delhi, India to a Punjabi mother and an American father.[13] She received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University's School of the Arts and is married to poet and editor Michael Dumanis.[14] Currently, she is the Doris and Carl Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase College (SUNY).[15]
Career[edit]
Ferrell won the "Discovery"/The Nation prize in 2001.[16][17] From 2002 to 2004 she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.[18] Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Baffler, Black Clock, Fence, Gulf Coast, New England Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, and The Yale Review, and in anthologies such as Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton), The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins India), and The Penguin Book of Indian Poets (Penguin India).[19]
Bibliography[edit]
- 2008:Beasts for the Chase (poetry, Sarabande Books)
- 2008:The Answer Is Always Yes (novel, Random House)
- 2018:You Darling Thing (poetry, Four Way Books)
Honors and awards[edit]
- "Discovery/The Nation prize in 2001
- finalist for the Asian American Writers' Workshop Prize in Poetry
- fellowships from the MacDowell Colony[20] and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation[21]
- Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University
- finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
References[edit]
- ^ "Monica Ferrell". Poetry Foundation. May 27, 2022.
- ^ "Beasts for the Chase, Monica Ferrell". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ "Beasts for the Chase, Monica Ferrell". thefreelibrary.com.
- ^ "The Answer Is Always Yes". The New Yorker.
- ^ "The Answer Is Always Yes, Monica Ferrell". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ "The Answer Is Always Yes, Monica Ferrell". kirkusreviews.com.
- ^ "New & Noteworthy » Monica Ferrell". The New York Times.
- ^ "You Darling Thing, Monica Ferrell". libraryjournal.com.
- ^ "On You Darling Thing by Monica Ferrell". kenyonreview.org.
- ^ "You Darling Thing, Monica Ferrell". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ "The 2018 Believer Book Award for Poetry Goes to Catherine Barnett by Harriet Staff". Poetry Foundation. May 27, 2022.
- ^ "2020 Kingsley & Kate Tufts Finalist Monica Ferrell". Tufts Poetry Awards.
- ^ "About Monica Ferrell". Academy of American Poets.
- ^ Calta, Marialisa (June 28, 2013). "A Romance in the Style of Byron or Keats". The New York Times.
- ^ "Professor Monica Ferrell". Purchase College.
- ^ Schulman, Grace (April 19, 2001). "Discovery/The Nation '01 Prizewinners". The Nation.
- ^ "Planet, Monica Ferrell". missourireview.com.
- ^ "Former Stegner Fellows | Creative Writing Program". creativewriting.stanford.edu.
- ^ Tatke, Sukhada (May 30, 2022). "Jeet Thayil on putting together a new anthology, The Penguin Book of Indian Poets". India Today.
- ^ "Monica Ferrell - Artist". MacDowell.
- ^ "Monica Ferrell". civitella.org.
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| National | |
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Harvard University alumni
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- State University of New York at Purchase faculty
- American women writers of Indian descent
- Writers from New Delhi
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women poets
- American women novelists
- 21st-century American women writers
- American poets of Asian descent
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- American novelists of Indian descent
- American people of Punjabi descent