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Melissa Pritchard
MELISSA PRITCHARD is the author of twelve books, including a biography and collection of essays. Her first short story collection, Spirit Seizures, won the 1988 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fi...view moreMELISSA PRITCHARD is the author of twelve books, including a biography and collection of essays. Her first short story collection, Spirit Seizures, won the 1988 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Carl Sandburg Award, the James Phelan Award from the San Francisco Foundation and was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book of the Year. A five time winner of Pushcart and O. Henry Prizes and consistently cited in Best American Short Stories, Melissa has published fiction and non-fiction in such literary journals, anthologies, textbooks, magazines as The Paris Review, Ploughshares, A Public Space, Conjunctions, Agni, Ecotone, The Gettysburg Review, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Nation, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. A recent Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow at the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia, Melissa’s newest novel is Tempest: The Extraordinary Life of Fanny Kemble (2021). www.melissapritchard.com.view less
Books by Melissa Pritchard
Speaking Volumes A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flight of the Wild Swan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spirit Seizures: Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Palmerino Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Changes: Stories about Transformation from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Odditorium: Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Perfect Souvenir: Stories about Travel from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrowing Up: Stories about Adolescence from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings