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Richmond's first book, the story collection [[The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress]], won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 2000 and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2001. Her first novel, ''[[Dream of the Blue Room]]'', was published by MacAdam/Cage [http://www.macadamcage.com]in 2003. Her second novel, '''The Year of Fog''', published by Delacorte in 2007, was a New York Times best seller and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Newmarket Films acquired the film rights to The Year of Fog.
Richmond's first book, the story collection [[The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress]], won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 2000 and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2001. Her first novel, ''[[Dream of the Blue Room]]'', was published by MacAdam/Cage [http://www.macadamcage.com]in 2003. Her second novel, '''The Year of Fog''', published by Delacorte in 2007, was a New York Times best seller and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Newmarket Films acquired the film rights to The Year of Fog.

Richmond was born in [[Demopolis, Alabama]], grew up in [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], attended college in [[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]] and [[Miami]], and eventually settled in [[San Francisco]], where she founded the online literary journal ''Fiction Attic''.

Richmond's short stories have appeared in Playboy, The Missouri Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. She received the 2006 Mississippi Review Prize for a short story entitled "The Great Amphibian." Her essays have been published in Salon.com, Oxford American, and The Kenyon Review, among others. Additionally, her essays about Iceland, Argentina, China, Slovenia, and other destinations have appeared in many magazines and anthologies.


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967927.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 The Year of Fog movie]
*[http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967927.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 The Year of Fog movie]
*[http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/2007/04/beach_noir_michelle_richmonds.phtml Interview by Mark Pritchard for SF Metblogs]
*[http://www.familycircle.com/fc/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/fc/story/data/1177451879703.xml&catref=fmc11 Profile in Family Circle]
*[http://www.familycircle.com/fc/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/fc/story/data/1177451879703.xml&catref=fmc11 Profile in Family Circle]
*[http://thehappybooker.blogs.com/the_happy_booker/2006/11/inner_views.html Interview on The Happy Booker]
*[http://conversationsonthecoast.com/list02.htm Podcast interview for Conversations on the Coast]
*[http://www.michellerichmond.com Michelle Richmond's home page]
*[http://www.fictionattic.com Fiction Attic]
*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5029455 Michelle Richmond on Talk of the Nation]
*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5029455 Michelle Richmond on Talk of the Nation]



Revision as of 19:12, 22 May 2008

Michelle Richmond is a fiction writer and essayist.

Richmond's first book, the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 2000 and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2001. Her first novel, Dream of the Blue Room, was published by MacAdam/Cage [1]in 2003. Her second novel, The Year of Fog, published by Delacorte in 2007, was a New York Times best seller and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Newmarket Films acquired the film rights to The Year of Fog.