Michelle Hoover

Degrees
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, M.F.A.Expertise
Nonfiction and Fiction Writing, including the short story and novel. Contemporary and Modern Literature.Profile
Michelle Hoover teaches creative writing at Brandeis University and GrubStreet, where she co-founded the Novel Incubator, a year-long intensive in the novel. Her debut, The Quickening, was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and is a 2010 Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" pick. She is a 2014 National Endowment of the Arts Fellow, awarded for her second novel, Bottomland, which was published by Grove/Atlantic in 2016 and chosen as the All Iowa Reads pick for 2017.For more, go to www.michelle-hoover.com. WebpageCourses Taught
ENG | 109b | Fiction Workshop: Short Fiction |
ENG | 119a | Fiction Workshop |
ENG | 129a | Creative Nonfiction Workshop |
Awards and Honors
All Iowa Reads Pick 2017 (2016 - 2018)
National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship (2014)
Scholarship
Hoover, Michelle. "Remembering the Storyteller of Damascus, Before the War: Michelle Hoover, in a Syria That Once Was." Literary Hub (2016): <http://lithub.com/remembering-the-storyteller-of-damascus-before-the-war/>.
Hoover, Michelle. "Ten Great Novels of the Rural, a Reading List by Michelle Hoover." Electric Literature (2016): <http://electricliterature.com/10-great-novels-of-the-rural-a-reading-list-by-michelle-hoover-author-of-bottomland/>.
Hoover, Michelle. "When America Turns on its Hyphenated Citizens: Michelle Hoover on Early 20th-Century Anti-German Hysteria." Literary Hub (2016): <http://lithub.com/when-america-turns-on-its-hyphenated-citizens/>.
Hoover, Michelle. Bottomland. 1st ed. New York: Grove/Atlantic, 2016.