Marly Youmans

Marly (Susan Marlene) Youmans (born November 22, 1953 in Aiken, South Carolina) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She grew up in Louisiana, North Carolina, and elsewhere, and she currently lives in the village of Cooperstown, New York with her husband and three children.

Life

She graduated from Hollins College, Brown University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught at State University of New York but quit academia after receiving promotion and tenure in her fifth year.^[1]

Her published work consists of two collections of poetry, four novels, and two fantasies, as well as uncollected short stories and poems. Her 2001 novel The Wolf Pit earned her the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction.^[2]

Awards

She is the winner of the Michael Shaara Award for The Wolf Pit,^[3] her third novel, as well as a two-time winner of the Theodore Hoepfner Award for the short story and the winner of the New Writers Award of Capital Magazine (New York), also for the short story. She has held fellowships from Yaddo, New York State, and elsewhere. Forthcoming stints as writer in residence: Hollins University M. A. Children's literature program, "Shared Worlds" (Spartanburg).

Bibliography

• The Throne of Psyche (Mercer University Press - Poetry), 2011 (dual hard/softcover)
• Val/Orson (P. S. Publishing, 2009) 1-906301-51-4 / 9781906301514 (UK) dual jacketed/unjacketed limited editions
• Ingledove. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2005. ISBN 9780374335991.  (reprint Firebird, 2006, ISBN 978-0-14-240704-2)
• The Curse of the Raven Mocker. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2003. ISBN 9780374316679. (reprint Firebird). 
• Claire: poems. Louisiana State University. 2003. ISBN 0807129011 (dual hard/softcover). http://books.google.com/books?id=JhI93O3zycgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Marly+Youmans&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• The Wolf Pit. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 2001. ISBN 9780374291952.  (reprint Harcourt, 2003, ISBN 978-0-15-602714-4)
• Catherwood. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 1996. ISBN 9780374119720. (reprint Bard 1997). 
• Little Jordan: a novel. David R. Godine. 1995. ISBN 9781567920291 (reprint Tempest, 1996). http://books.google.com/books?id=ta6IoMp_7TYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Marly+Youmans&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel, Bryan Albin Giemza, ed (2006). Southern writers: a new biographical dictionary. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807131237. http://books.google.com/books?id=xxd451POnpYC&pg=PT485&dq=Marly+Youmans&cd=5#v=onepage&q=Marly%20Youmans&f=false. 
2. ^ "The Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction". Louisiana State University. http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/shaara.html. Retrieved 9 August 2011. 
3. ^ "SON'S PASSION FOR CIVIL WAR LED HER TO WRITE AWARD-WINNING BOOK". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. June 26, 2002. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F46E0A49BD671B3&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2008-09-18. 

Reviews

• Philip Gambone (May 26, 1996). "Another Part of the Forest". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/07/nnp/19634.html. 

External links

• Marly Youmans website
• Marly Youmans blog
• Interview at Clarkesworld Magazine, May 2010

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