Michelle Hoover

Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence

Departments/Programs

English

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. Webpage

Courses Taught

ENG	109b	Fiction Workshop: Short Fiction
ENG	119a	Fiction Workshop: Playing with Genre—Horror, Fantasy, and More
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.