Michelle Hoover

Michelle Hoover is an American writer and college instructor. She is the author of The Quickening a 2010 novel. She was born in Ames, Iowa, but currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] She was selected as the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University.[1] She was a MacDowell Fellow from the MacDowell Colony.[1][2] She has taught writing at Boston University and, since 2014, currently teaches at Brandeis University as the Fannie Hurst writer-in-residence.[3][4] She also teaches at GrubStreet, where she co-founded the Novel Incubator program.[4][5] She has an MFA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[4] In 2014 she was selected as the National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship.[2][4]

Works

Hoover is a contributor to the Best New American Voices anthology.[1] She has also published short stories and novel excerpts in literary journals, including Prairie Schooner, Confrontation, StoryQuarterly, and The Massachusetts Review.[1] In 2005 she won the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction.

Her novel, The Quickening, was published in 2010 by Other Press (ISBN 978-1590513460). It was based on her own family history and a journal her grandmother, Melva Current, wrote during the Great Depression.[1][6][7] It was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, was a finalist for the Indies Choice Debut in 2010, was a finalist in the Literary Fiction category for Foreword Magazine's 2010 Book of the Year Awards,[8] and was a 2010 Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" pick.[3] Poets and Writers magazine picked The Quickening as one of its Top 5 Debut novels in 2010.[7]

Her second novel, Bottomland (ISBN 978-0802124715), was published on March 1, 2016 by Grove Press, Black Cat. It has been selected as the 2017 All Iowa Reads selection.[9]

References
  1. "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. Gale. 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  2. "Attend | Michelle Hoover". www.bostonbookfest.org. Archived from the original on 2015-12-24. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  3. "Writers' Corner". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  4. "Michelle Hoover | Brandeis University". www.brandeis.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  5. "Grove Atlantic: Author Biography". groveatlantic.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-14. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  6. Fay, Sarah (2010-07-30). "Book Review - The Quickening - By Michelle Hoover". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  7. "Interview with Michelle Hoover | GrubStreet". grubstreet.org. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  8. "2010 Foreword INDIES Finalists in Literary (Adult Fiction)". Foreword Reviews. Retrieved 1 November 2018.
  9. "Grove Atlantic: Bottomland". www.groveatlantic.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-14. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
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