Debra Monroe

Debra Monroe at the 2010 Texas Book Festival.

Debra Monroe is an American short story writer, and novelist.

Life

She was raised in Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, from Kansas State University with a master's degree, and from the University of Utah with a Ph.D.

She taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.^[1] She teaches at Texas State University–San Marcos.^[2]

Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner,^[3] Callaloo.,^[4] and numerous other magazines and journals. She lives in Austin, Texas.^[5]

Awards

• 1990 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• National Book Award nomination
• Borders Bookstores "New Frontiers" selection

Works

• The Source of Trouble. Simon & Schuster. 1995. ISBN 9780671897161. 
• A Wild, Cold State. Simon & Schuster. 1995. ISBN 9780671897178. 
• Newfangled. Simon & Schuster. 1998. ISBN 9780684819051. 
• Shambles: a novel. Southern Methodist University Press. 2004. ISBN 9780870744860. 
• On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family against the Grain. Southern Methodist University Press. 2010. ISBN 9780870745607. 

Criticism

• "Book Reviews:MotherKind by Jayne Anne Phillips", The Aurtin Chronicle, DEBRA MONROE, : MAY 12, 2000

References

1. ^ http://www.engl.unt.edu/calendar/visitwriter.htm
2. ^ http://www.lib.odu.edu/litfest/22nd/monroe.html
3. ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/prairie_schooner/v077/77.2monroe.pdf
4. ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/summary/v032/32.2.monroe.html
5. ^ http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2004/monroe.htm

External links

• "Author's website"

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