Melissa Pritchard
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Melissa Pritchard

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Melissa Pritchard, author of twelve books, has received numerous awards, including the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Carl Sandburg Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. A PEN/Nelson Algren finalist, she has received three Pushcart Prizes, two O.Henry Prizes and been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Howard Foundation, the Hawthornden Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation and the Carson McCullers Center. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in such publications as O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune Paris Review, Ploughshares, Conjunctions, A Public Space, The Southern Review, LitMag, Chicago Quarterly Review and The Gettysburg Review. Her books have been listed as New York Times Notable Books, selected for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune's Best Books lists and received the Barnes and Noble 'Discover Great New Writers' prize. National Public Radio chose one of her collections for their Annual Summer Reading List, and THE ODDITORIUM, was one of "Ten Books to Pick Up Now," in O Magazine as well as an Oprah Winfrey "Book of the Week" selection. PALMERINO, one of "Ten Books to Pick Up Now," in O Magazine, was an American Library Association choice for best LGBT fiction. A SOLEMN PLEASURE was a Publishers Weekly 2015 "Top Ten" selection in the category of biographies, essays and literary criticism, a pick in Poets and Writers' "Best Books for Writers," and a CCLM Firecracker Award finalist, Her novel, FLIGHT OF THE WILD SWAN will be published by Bellevue Literary Press, NYC in March 2024. www.melissapritchard.com
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