Personal profile
About
Mary Troy is the author of five books of fiction–three collections of short stories and two novels: Swimming on Hwy N, Beauties, Cookie Lily, The Alibi Cafe and other stories, and Joe Baker Is Dead. She has won the USA Book award for literary fiction, the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award, a Nelson Algren award, and more. Her sixth book, New and Selected Stories, will be published in 2020. For more than twenty years, Mary taught in and helped mold the MFA Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. For ten years she was the editor of Natural Bridge, a journal of contemporary literature.
Contact Information
314-516-6845
Research Interests
- Contemporary Literature
- Fiction Writing (Novels and Short Stories)
- Literary Journal Editing
- MFA Programs
- Grant Writing
- Money for the Arts
- How to Find a Publisher/Creative and Fiction Writing
- creative writing
- publishing
- independent presses
- novel and short story writing and reading
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities
Research output
- 5 Book