Yannick Murphy

Yannick Murphy is an American novelist and short story writer. She is a recipient of the Whiting Award, National Endowment for the Arts award, Chesterfield Screenwriting award, MacDowell Colony fellowship, and the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award.

Life

She grew up in Greenwich Village, New York. She attended P.S. 41, I.S. 70, and Stuyvesant High School where she took a class with Frank McCourt. She graduated with a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.A. in English from New York University and studied with Gordon Lish. She lived in New York and California. She now lives in Vermont, with her husband, a horse doctor, and their three children. Her PEN New England Award winning novel The Call is based on her husband's life as a large animal veterinarian.[1]

Awards

Works

Books
  • Stories in Another Language. Knopf. 1987. ISBN 978-0-394-55707-6.
  • The Sea of Trees. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1997. ISBN 978-0-395-85012-1.
  • Here They Come. Grove Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8021-4319-8.
  • Signed, Mata Hari. Little, Brown. 2007. ISBN 978-0-316-11264-2.
  • In a Bear’s Eye. Dzanc Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-9793123-1-1.
  • The Call. Harper Perennial. 2011. ISBN 0-06-202314-4.
  • This Is The Water. Harper Perennial. 2014. ISBN 978-0062294906.

Children's Books
  • Ahwoooooooo!. Illustrator Claudio Muñoz. Clarion Books. 2006. ISBN 978-0-618-11762-8.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Baby Polar. Illustrator Kristen Balouch. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009. ISBN 978-0-618-99850-0.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • The Cold Water Witch. Illustrator Tom Lintern. Tricycle Press. 2010. ISBN 1-58246-330-1.CS1 maint: others (link)

Anthologies
  • Pushcart Prize XXXIX 2014, Pushcart Press (November 12, 2014) ISBN 978-1888889734
  • Best Non-Required Reading 2009, Mariner Books (October 8, 2009) ISBN 978-0547241609
  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007, Anchor Books (May 8, 2007) ISBN 978-0-307-27688-9

Stories

Essays

gollark: Does it matter much if it's illegal or not if it blatantly occurs anyway though?
gollark: I mean, the NSA does it anyway.
gollark: I really fear for the future of general-purpose computing and privacy.
gollark: The UK has similarly !!FUN!! laws and is to get new ones at some point, too.
gollark: https://tenor.com/view/opinion-river-gif-21960932

References
  1. "Yannick Murphy Talks with Yannick Murphy". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  2. http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=stories&story_id=109
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