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'''Jeanne Leiby''' (1964 - April 19, 2011) was an [[United States|American]] teacher, [[fiction]] writer and [[literary magazine]] editor. Leiby's short stories were published in several U.S. literary journals, including ''Fiction'', ''[[Indiana Review]]'', ''The [[Greensboro Review]]'', and ''[[New Orleans Review]]''. In 2000, she won the Poets and Writers Writer Exchange. Her first collection of short stories, ''Downriver'', was published by Carolina Wren Press as the 2006 winner of the Doris Bakwin prize.<ref>[http://www.uncg.edu/eng/mfa/festival.html 2007 Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival: MFA writing program at UNCG<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Leiby also served as fiction editor of ''Black Warrior Review'' and as the Editor in Chief of the ''[[Florida Review]]'' (2004–2007). In Spring 2008, she took over as editor of ''[[The Southern Review]]'' at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<ref>[http://www.english.ucf.edu/view_faculty.php?id=60 UCF English Department: Faculty and Staff Information<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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Leiby grew up downriver [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]. She earned a BA at the [[University of Michigan]], an MA at the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and an MFA at the [[University of Alabama]].<ref>[http://www.carolinawrenpress.org/ Carolina Wren Press » new authors, new audiences<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
Leiby grew up downriver [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]. She earned a BA at the [[University of Michigan]], an MA at the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and an MFA at the [[University of Alabama]].<ref>[http://www.carolinawrenpress.org/ Carolina Wren Press » new authors, new audiences<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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She was killed in a car accident in Louisiana on April 19, 2011. |
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Revision as of 18:37, 20 April 2011
Jeanne Leiby (1964 - April 19, 2011) was an American teacher, fiction writer and literary magazine editor. Leiby's short stories were published in several U.S. literary journals, including Fiction, Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review, and New Orleans Review. In 2000, she won the Poets and Writers Writer Exchange. Her first collection of short stories, Downriver, was published by Carolina Wren Press as the 2006 winner of the Doris Bakwin prize.[1] Leiby also served as fiction editor of Black Warrior Review and as the Editor in Chief of the Florida Review (2004–2007). In Spring 2008, she took over as editor of The Southern Review at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[2]
Leiby grew up downriver Detroit. She earned a BA at the University of Michigan, an MA at the Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College, and an MFA at the University of Alabama.[3]
She was killed in a car accident in Louisiana on April 19, 2011.
Bibliography
- Downriver (2007) Carolina Wren Press/Winner of the Doris Bawkin Prize.
- "Docks" in Nimrod. Honorable mention in the Katherine Ann Porter Prize.
- "Family Meeting" in Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring 2003
- "Pink" in Witness
- "A Place Alone" in Fiction
- "Henrietta and the Headache" in Berkeley Fiction Review
- "Days of the Renovation" in Seattle Review
- "Vinegar Tasting" in Indiana Review
- "Living With A Gun Runner," winner of Flyway Fiction Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize
- "Days of the Renovation," second place in the Michael Gearhart Poetry Prize, SunDog: The Southeast Review
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