Yannick Murphy

{{short description|American writer}}

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Yannick Murphy is an American novelist and short story writer. She is a recipient of the Whiting Award, National Endowment for the Arts award, Chesterfield Screenwriting award, MacDowell Colony fellowship, and the Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award.

Life

She grew up in Greenwich Village, New York. She attended P.S. 41, I.S. 70, and Stuyvesant High School where she took a class with Frank McCourt. She graduated with a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.A. in English from New York University and studied with Gordon Lish. She lived in New York and California. She now lives in Vermont, with her husband, a horse doctor, and their three children. Her PEN New England Award winning novel The Call is based on her husband's life as a large animal veterinarian.{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/63338-yannick-murphy-talks-with-yannick-murphy.html|title=Yannick Murphy Talks with Yannick Murphy|work=PublishersWeekly.com|access-date=2018-09-19|language=en}}

Awards

  • 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships{{cite web |title=Literature Fellowships |url=https://www.arts.gov/grants/recent-grants/literature-fellowships?field_year_value=1988&field_lit_fellows_type_value=1&title=Yannick |website=arts.gov |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=15 September 2022 |language=en}}
  • 1990 Whiting Award{{cite web |title=Yannick Murphy |url=https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/yannick-murphy/ |publisher=Whiting Foundation |access-date=15 September 2022}}
  • 2012 Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award for The Call{{cite web |title=2012 Laurence L. & Thomas Winship /Pen New England Awards Announced |url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/about-us/news-and-press/press-releases/2012-laurence-l-thomas-winship-pen-new-england-awards-announced |website=jfklibrary.org |publisher=John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum |access-date=15 September 2022}}
  • Chesterfield Screenwriting award
  • MacDowell Colony fellowship

Works

=Books=

  • {{cite book| title=Stories in Another Language| publisher=Knopf| year=1987| isbn=978-0-394-55707-6| url=https://archive.org/details/storiesinanother00murp}}
  • {{cite book| title=The Sea of Trees| publisher=Houghton Mifflin Co.| year=1997| isbn=978-0-395-85012-1| url=https://archive.org/details/seaoftrees00murp}}
  • {{cite book| title=Here They Come| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aID62INA0Y0C| publisher=Grove Press| year= 2007| isbn=978-0-8021-4319-8 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Signed, Mata Hari| publisher=Little, Brown| year=2007| isbn=978-0-316-11264-2| url=https://archive.org/details/signedmataharino00murp}}
  • {{cite book| title=In a Bear's Eye| publisher=Dzanc Books| year=2008| isbn=978-0-9793123-1-1| url=https://archive.org/details/inbearseye00yann}}
  • {{cite book| title=The Call| publisher=Harper Perennial| year= 2011| isbn=978-0-06-202314-8 }}
  • {{cite book| title=This Is The Water| url=https://archive.org/details/thisiswaternovel0000murp| url-access=registration| publisher=Harper Perennial| year= 2014| isbn=978-0062294906 }}

=Children's books=

  • {{cite book| title=Ahwoooooooo!| author=Yannick Murphy |author-mask=0|others=Illustrated by Claudio Muñoz| publisher=Clarion Books| year=2006| isbn=978-0-618-11762-8| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/ahwoooooooo0000murp}}
  • {{cite book| title=Baby Polar| author=Yannick Murphy |author-mask=0|others=Illustrated by Kristen Balouch| publisher= Houghton Mifflin Harcourt| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0-618-99850-0 }}
  • {{cite book| title=The Cold Water Witch| url=https://archive.org/details/coldwaterwitch0000murp| url-access=registration| author=Yannick Murphy |author-mask=0|others=Illustrated by Tom Lintern| publisher=Tricycle Press| year= 2010| isbn= 978-1-58246-330-8 }}

=Anthologies=

  • Pushcart Prize XXXIX 2014, Pushcart Press (November 12, 2014) {{ISBN|978-1888889734}}
  • Best Non-Required Reading 2009, Mariner Books (October 8, 2009) {{ISBN|978-0547241609}}
  • The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007, Anchor Books (May 8, 2007) {{ISBN|978-0-307-27688-9}}

=Stories=

  • [http://www.bigbigwednesday.com/ "Now is the Time", Big, Big Wednesday, 2017]
  • [http://www.theliteraryreview.org/fiction/the-prescription/ "The Prescription", The Literary Review, 2016]
  • [http://www.conjunctions.com/online/article/yannick-murphy-07-26-2016 "Too Much for Adele", Conjunctions Online, 2016]
  • [https://www.all-story.com/issues/77 "Forty Words", Zoetrope, 2016]
  • [http://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/online/2006/murphy.html "Walls", AGNI, 2006]
  • "The Good Word," One Story, Issue 109, September 2008{{Cite web|url=http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=stories&story_id=109|title=One Story - Stories [ Issue #109 ]}}

Essays

  • "The Other End of the Line" [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/magazine/the-best-of-our-lives-column.html New York Times Magazine Best of the Lives Column, March 24, 2017]
  • [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/indexes/2015/11/15/magazine/index.html "A Real Vermonter" New York Times Magazine Lives Column, November 15, 2015]
  • [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magazine/home-and-away.html "Home and Away" New York Times Magazine Lives Column, February 19, 2006]
  • "The Big Kahuna" Woof!: Writers on Dogs, Penguin Books (August 26, 2009) {{ISBN|978-0143116004}}

References

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