Mandy Keifetz
{{short description|American novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1966)}}
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Mandy Keifetz (born May 26, 1966) is an American novelist, playwright, and poet. Her work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review,{{cite web|url=https://www.massreview.org/table-contents-2010-2019|title=Table of Contents 2010-2019 - Mass Review|website=www.massreview.org}} The Brooklyn Rail, .Cent, Penthouse, Vogue, QW, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and others. She was a Fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2002{{cite web|url=http://current.nyfa.org/post/131696018978/stacks-three-decades-of-writing-fellows-with-an|title=Stacks: Three Decades of Writing Fellows with an Installation by Anne Muntges|last=NYFA.org|website=NYFA.org – NYFA Current}} and her plays have been staged in London at the Young Vic and Theatre503, in Cambridge at the Junction Theater and at the Judith E. Wilson Studio, in Montréal at the Théâtre Ste. Catherine, in Oslo at the Samtid Festivalen and in New York at Where Eagles Dare Studios.{{cite web|url=https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/awp_award_series_previous_winners/2010|title=AWP: Award Series Winners|website=www.awpwriter.org}}
Works
- Flea Circus: A Brief Bestiary of Grief, 2012. New Issues Poetry & Prose
- Association of Writers and Writing Programs Prize in the Novel (AWP Prize), 2010{{cite web|url=https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/awp_award_series_previous_winners|title=AWP: Award Series Winners|website=www.awpwriter.org}}
- Grub Street Prize finalist and honorable mention, 2011{{cite web|url=https://grubstreet.org/programs/other-programs/national-book-prize/past-winners/|title=Book Prize Past Winners |publisher=GrubStreet |website=grubstreet.org}}
- "A tour de force." Kirkus Reviews{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mandy-keifetz/flea-circus2/|title=Flea Circus by Mandy Keifetz |work=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=}}
- "A lovely mix of lyrical imagery and striking prose" Superstition Review, Issue 9{{cite web|url=https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue9/interviews/mandykeifetz|title=Mandy Keifetz - Superstition Review|website=superstitionreview.asu.edu}}
- "Artful alliteration and sorrowful lyricism" TriQuarterly{{cite web|url=http://www.triquarterly.org/reviews/flea-circus-brief-bestiary-grief-mandy-keifetz|title=Flea Circus: A Brief Bestiary of Grief by Mandy Keifetz|publisher=}}
- Corrido, 1998. Flea Bites Press
- "What makes the novel a satisfying read is Keifetz's right-on grasp of events and details that elevate the common into something nearly precious." The Austin Chronicle{{cite web |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/books/1998-12-11/520762/|title=The Gift of Words|publisher=}}
- Her forthcoming third novel Klingon Confidential was excerpted in The Massachusetts Review (Winter 2012, Vol. 53 Issue 4){{cite web |url= http://www.massreview.org/sites/default/files/Keifetz.pdf|title=Excerpt |website=www.massreview.org}}
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Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American women novelists
Category:American women dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century American dramatists and playwrights