Debra Monroe is the author of six books, four books of fiction, and two memoirs, and the editor a creative nonfiction teaching anthology. She is known as “fierce” writer who presents “ever-hopeful lost souls with engaging humor and sympathy” (Kirkus Reviews), for prose that’s “rangy, thoughtful, ambitious, and widely, wildly knowledgeable” (The Washington Post). Her books have won many awards, including the Flannery O’Connor Award. She’s published fiction in over thirty journals, and her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Salon.com, Longreads, The American Scholar, Guernica, and been shortlisted for Best American Essays. She has an M.A. in Rhetoric from Kansas State University, and PhD in Fiction from the University of Utah. Her former students are widely published, and she has won many teaching awards.
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