Maile Meloy
| Maile Meloy | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 1, 1972 Helena, Montana |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) |
| Relatives | Colin Meloy, brother Carson Ellis, sister in-law Ellen Meloy, aunt |
Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American fiction writer.
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Early life and education
Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Meloy received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.
Career
Meloy won The Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story, "Aqua Boulevard," in 2001;[1] the PEN/Malamud Award for her first collection of short stories, Half in Love, in 2003;[2] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.[3] In 2007, Granta included her on its list of the 21 "Best Young American Novelists."[4][5]
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,[6] and she is a frequent contributor to The New York Times.[7]
Describing how she wrote "Half in Love," Meloy is quoted on the Ploughshares web site as saying, "What I wound up with was a book that was set in different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some of the hardest to write, because it's the place I’m closest to—and partly in other places, in London and Paris and Greece. So it had very little temporal or geographical unity, but the characters are all caught between one thing and another, half in love with something or someone, when life deals them something they didn’t expect."[8]
In 2015, Meloy's short story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories was adapted into the movie Livingston directed by Kelly Reichardt. The film is expected to be released in 2016.
Personal Life
Meloy is the older sister of Colin Meloy, frontman of The Decemberists, solo artist, and the writer of Wildwood (novel) and Under Wildwood. She lives in Los Angeles.
Works
- Half in Love: Stories (2002)
- Liars and Saints (2003)
- A Family Daughter (2006)
- Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories (2009)
- The Apothecary (2011)
- The Apprentices (2013)
- The After-Room (2015)
Short fiction
| Title | Year | First published in | Reprinted in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demeter | 2012 | The New Yorker 88/36 (November 19, 2012) |
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Archival collections
- Guide to the Maile Meloy Collection MS.L.019. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Other
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