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 Literatures.

Profile

Michelle Hoover is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University and teaches at GrubStreet, where she leads the Novel Incubator program. She is a 2014 NEA Fellow and has been a Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell Fellow, and a winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award. Her debut, The Quickening, was a 2010 Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read." Her second novel, Bottomland, is the 2017 All Iowa Reads selection and a 2016 Mass Book "Must Read." She is a native of Iowa and lives in Boston. For more, go to www.michelle-hoover.com. Webpage

Courses Taught

ENG	109b	Fiction Workshop: Short Fiction
ENG	119a	Fiction Workshop
ENG	129a	Creative Nonfiction Workshop

Awards and Honors

2016 Massachusetts Book Award "Must Reads" Selection for Bottomland (2018)

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.