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.

Yannick Murphy
OccupationWriter
Alma mater
Genre
  • Novel
  • short story
Notable awards

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 978-0-06-202314-8.
  • This Is The Water. Harper Perennial. 2014. ISBN 978-0062294906.

Children's books
  • Ahwoooooooo!. Illustrated by Claudio Muñoz. Clarion Books. 2006. ISBN 978-0-618-11762-8.
  • Baby Polar. Illustrated by Kristen Balouch. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009. ISBN 978-0-618-99850-0.
  • The Cold Water Witch. Illustrated by Tom Lintern. Tricycle Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-58246-330-8.

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

References
  1. "Yannick Murphy Talks with Yannick Murphy". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  2. "Literature Fellowships". arts.gov. National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  3. "Yannick Murphy". Whiting Foundation. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  4. "2012 Laurence L. & Thomas Winship /Pen New England Awards Announced". jfklibrary.org. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  5. "One Story - Stories [ Issue #109 ]".
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