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Mesha Maren

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Mesha Maren’s debut novel Sugar Run is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in January 2019. She is the 2018-2019 Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and her short stories and essays appear in Tin House, Oxford American, Crazyhorse, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, and Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation and she teaches fiction at the MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College and serves as a National Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellow at the Beckley Federal Correctional Institution.
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The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project #216: Corinne Manning

  • Mesha Maren
  • May 7, 2020
“I’ve never had a book happen to me the way WE HAD NO RULES did.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #157: Sarah Viren

  • Mesha Maren
  • December 6, 2018
”There’s a danger to the word [’mine’] that I find really rich and exciting.”
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A Questionable Shape
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“A Questionable Shape,” by Bennett Sims

  • Mesha Maren
  • May 13, 2013
“What we know about the undead so far is this: they return to the familiar.” Thus begins Bennett Sims’ debut novel A Questionable Shape. The subject matter of this brilliantly…
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