Emma Duffy-Comparone

Emma Duffy-Comparone’s short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, New England Review, AGNI, One Story, American Scholar, Southern Review, Mississippi Review, Cincinnati Review and The Sun.

A recipient of two Pushcart Prizes (XXXIX and XLI), she has also received awards from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences, the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Elizabeth George Foundation and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. In 2015, she served as guest co-editor of The Pushcart Prize XL.

Duffy-Comparone’s courses explore the conventions of the short story and help students cultivate strategies for developing a personal creative process.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Fiction) 2015

Pushcart (Fiction) 2017

Pushcart (Fiction) 2018*

Pushcart (Fiction) 2021*

* indicates notable/special mention

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