Christine Sneed

Fiction Writer

Pasadena, CA

California US

Email:

sneedchristine@gmail.com

Website:

www.christinesneed.com

Twitter/X:

@christinesneed

Author's Bio

I have a bachelor's degree in French language and literature from Georgetown University and a creative writing MFA from Indiana University. I teach for Northwestern University's graduate writing program and for the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University in Forest Grove, OR. My books are Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry (Univ. of Mass. Press 2010, Bloomsbury 2013), winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction 2009; and Little Known Facts (Bloomsbury 2013). Stories have been published in Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, New England Review, Southern Review, The Literary Review, and a number of other journals. I live in Evanston, IL.

Education:

Indiana University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

New Stories from the Midwest 2015 (New American Press, 2016)

New Stories from the Midwest (Indiana University Press, 2013)

PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 (Random House, 2012)

Best American Short Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)

Books:

The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury USA, 2016)

Paris, He Said (Bloomsbury USA, 2015)

Little Known Facts (Bloomsbury USA, 2013)

Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry (paper) (Bloomsbury USA, 2013)

Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry (hardbound) (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010)

Journals:

580 Split

Catamaran Literary Reader

Glimmer Train

Northwest Review

Other Voices

River City Review

Prizes won:

Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction; Chicago Writer's Association Book of the Year Award; Ploughshares John C. Zacharis Award O. Henry Prize; Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, First-fiction category; Long-listed for the International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award; Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award finalist; Long-listed for Dzanc Book Prize (novel)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Penelope Fitzgerald; Rachel Cusk; David Szalay; Edward P. Jones; Scott Spencer; William Trevor; Alice Munro

What I'm reading now:

Paris Was Ours by Editor Penelope Rowland , Paris, Paris by David Downie, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English, French

Born in:

Berlin, WI

Wisconsin

Raised in:

Libertyville, IL

Illinois

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Last update: May 17, 2021