M M De Voe

Bio

A former actress, prolific short-story writer M. M. DeVoe has won, made finalist, or been shortlisted for the following awards: •The 1997 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Competition •PRISM: international 1999 Short Fiction Competition •Phoebe’s 2001 Short Story Contest •The Lyric’s 1990 National Poetry Contest •nowCulture.com’s 1998 Annual Poetry Contest •H. E. Francis Short Story Competition 2002 •Fish Publishing’s 2003 Short Story Prize •The 2004 Bellwether Prize (unpublished novel) •The 2004 Dana Awards (unpublished novel) •The 2005 Pushcart Prize (short story) •The 2006 Pushcart Prize (short story) •The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation 2006 Novel Competition •Best of the First Line 2006 (short story) •The 2007 Pushcart Prize (short story) •2007 Best of the ‘Net (short story) •2007 Best of the Web (short story) •Sojourn’s 2007 Editor’s Choice Award (Work in Fiction) •2008 Fellowship to the SLS Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia •2009 Wordstock Short Fiction Competition She won the Regina Russo Outstanding Recent Graduate Award in June 1999, and has been listed in Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in the World since 2004. De Voe has had short fiction published in several journals including America, Bee Museum: The Journal of Baltic Writers in English, Bellevue Literary Review, Green Mountains Review, Jerry Magazine, Ladyfinger, Literal Latte, Lithuanian Heritage Magazine, Mississippi Review, New Millenium Writings, New York, Prism International, Slant, Sojourn, The First Line, The Lyric, THEMA, and The Oklahoma Review. De Voe holds an MFA from Columbia University in Fiction, is Associate Editor and Director of Online Workshops for Our Stories Literary Journal, and is the founder and executive director of the Pen Parentis Literary Salons in lower Manhattan, where she lives with her husband, her children and a small collection of novels-in-progress.