Deirdra McAfee

Fiction Writer

Lexington, VA
Virginia US
Email: 
deirdra.mcafee@gmail.com
Website: 
www.deirdramcafee.com/

Author's Bio

Deirdra McAfee’s prizewinning stories, widely published in print and online, have appeared in Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, Willow Springs, Confrontation, The Seattle Review, The Diagram, and others, as well as being anthologized. A skilled teacher and a trained editor, McAfee received an MFA in fiction from The New School and an MA in English literature from Georgetown. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Authors Guild, AWP, and the North Carolina Writers Network, she's taught creative writing since 2001.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Diagram.2 (Del Sol Press, 2006)
,
Sex & Chocolate (Paycock, 2006)
Book:
Lock & Load: American Writers on Guns (University of New Mexico Press, 2017)
Journals:
Ambergris
,
Baltimore Review
,
Big Muddy
,
Confrontation
,
Diagram
,
G.W. Review
,
Georgia Review
,
New Millennium Writings
,
Paper Street
,
Rio Grande Review
,
Seattle Review
,
Shenandoah
,
Streetlight Magazine
,
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
,
Tupelo Quarterly
,
Turnstile
,
Willow Springs
Prizes won: 

Awards

  • H. E. Francis Prize
  • Seattle Review Prize
  • Pushcart Nomination and Special Mention
  • P&W Writers Exchange Prize (now Maureen Egen Writers Exchange)

Scholarships

  • Tin House Summer Workshop
  • Gettysburg Review Conference
  • Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference
  • AWP WC&C Scholarship

Residencies

  • Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
  • The Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow
  • VCCA; VCCA France
  • Martha's Vineyard Writers' Residency
  • The Hambidge Center
  • The Vermont Studio Center
  • The Ragdale Foundation
  • The MacDowell Colony
  • The Ucross Foundation
  • Weymouth Center for the Arts

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Irish American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
Spanish
Born in: 
Rockville Centre, NY
New York
Raised in: 
IA
Iowa
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Last update: Oct 19, 2022