Maureen McCoy

Maureen McCoy lives in Ithaca, New York, where she is a professor and member of the Program in Creative Writing at Cornell University; and in Taos, New Mexico, where she climbs mountains. She is the author of four novels, most recently Junebug (Leapfrog Press, 2004). Walking After Midnight, Summertime, and Divining Blood were published by Poseidon/Simon & Schuster; paperback editions of Walking After Midnight and Summertime were published by Washington Square Press. The novels take place in Iowa, on the Mississippi River, Nebraska and other stops around the Midwest. She is also the author of short fiction, monologues for actors, including "My Bonny Elvis" which was performed in Germany and Tennessee, and anthologized excerpts. "How Tiny Tim Entered The Witness Protection Program," set in Des Moines, was published in Epoch Magazine. In editor Nancy Pearl's Book Lust (Sasquatch Books, 2003) Walking After Midnight tops the list for Elvis-friendly novels. "A personal essay, "Vickie's Pour House: A Soldier's Peace," published in the Antioch Review, was a finalist for a 2009 National Magazine Award. The essay reappears in the Antioch Review's Fall 2011 issue that features the best writing published in the last ten years.