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Her work has appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref name=mmeloy>{{cite journal|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/12/22/031222fa_fact2|title=Hot or Cold|journal=New Yorker|date=December 22, 2003|last=Meloy|first=Maile|accessdate=July 28, 2011}}</ref> and she is a frequent contributor to ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Meloy-t.html?ex=1336968000&en=c508cfb8308735d2&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |title = Domestic Disturbances: A review of Helen Simpson's "In the Driver's Seat" | publisher = The New York Times | date = May 20, 2007 | first=Maile | last=Meloy | accessdate=May 12, 2010}}</ref>
Her work has appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'',<ref name=mmeloy>{{cite journal|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/12/22/031222fa_fact2|title=Hot or Cold|journal=New Yorker|date=December 22, 2003|last=Meloy|first=Maile|accessdate=July 28, 2011}}</ref> and she is a frequent contributor to ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Meloy-t.html?ex=1336968000&en=c508cfb8308735d2&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |title = Domestic Disturbances: A review of Helen Simpson's "In the Driver's Seat" | publisher = The New York Times | date = May 20, 2007 | first=Maile | last=Meloy | accessdate=May 12, 2010}}</ref>


Describing how she wrote "Half in Love," Meloy is quoted on the [[Ploughshares]] web site as saying, "What I wound up with was a book that was set in different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some of the hardest to write, because it's the place I’m closest to—and partly in other places, in London and Paris and Greece. So it had very little temporal or geographical unity, but the characters are all caught between one thing and another, half in love with something or someone, when life deals them something they didn’t expect."<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7797 | title = Zacharis Award Winner Maile Meloy | publisher = Ploughshares| date = Winter 2003–2004}}{{dead link|date=January 2010}}</ref>
Describing how she wrote "Half in Love," Meloy is quoted on the [[Ploughshares]] web site as saying, "What I wound up with was a book that was set in different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some of the hardest to write, because it's the place I’m closest to—and partly in other places, in London and Paris and Greece. So it had very little temporal or geographical unity, but the characters are all caught between one thing and another, half in love with something or someone, when life deals them something they didn’t expect."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7797 |title=Zacharis Award Winner Maile Meloy |publisher=Ploughshares |date=Winter 2003–2004 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20070609043433/http://pshares.org:80/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7797 |archivedate=June 9, 2007 }}</ref>


In 2015, Meloy's short story collection ''Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories'' was adapted into the movie ''[[Livingston (film)|Livingston]]'' directed by [[Kelly Reichardt]]. The film is expected to be released in 2016.
In 2015, Meloy's short story collection ''Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories'' was adapted into the movie ''[[Livingston (film)|Livingston]]'' directed by [[Kelly Reichardt]]. The film is expected to be released in 2016.

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Maile Meloy
Born (1972-01-01) January 1, 1972 (age 52)
Helena, Montana
NationalityAmerican
GenreFiction
Notable awardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2004)
RelativesColin Meloy, brother
Carson Ellis, sister in-law
Ellen Meloy, aunt

Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American fiction writer.

Early life and education

Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Meloy received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.

Career

Meloy won The Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story, "Aqua Boulevard," in 2001;[1] the PEN/Malamud Award for her first collection of short stories, Half in Love, in 2003;[2] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.[3] In 2007, Granta included her on its list of the 21 "Best Young American Novelists."[4][5]

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,[6] and she is a frequent contributor to The New York Times.[7]

Describing how she wrote "Half in Love," Meloy is quoted on the Ploughshares web site as saying, "What I wound up with was a book that was set in different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some of the hardest to write, because it's the place I’m closest to—and partly in other places, in London and Paris and Greece. So it had very little temporal or geographical unity, but the characters are all caught between one thing and another, half in love with something or someone, when life deals them something they didn’t expect."[8]

In 2015, Meloy's short story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories was adapted into the movie Livingston directed by Kelly Reichardt. The film is expected to be released in 2016.

Personal Life

Meloy is the older sister of Colin Meloy, frontman of The Decemberists, solo artist, and the writer of Wildwood (novel) and Under Wildwood. She lives in Los Angeles.

Works

  • Half in Love: Stories (2002)
  • Liars and Saints (2003)
  • A Family Daughter (2006)
  • Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories (2009)
  • The Apothecary (2011)
  • The Apprentices (2013)
  • The After-Room (2015)

Short fiction

Title Year First published in Reprinted in
Demeter 2012 The New Yorker 88/36 (November 19, 2012)

References

  1. ^ "THE PARIS REVIEW No. 158, Spring-Summer 2001".
  2. ^ "PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction".
  3. ^ "2004 Guggenheim Fellows".
  4. ^ "Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2".
  5. ^ Sittenfeld, Curtis (July 8, 2009). "Irrational Behavior". New York Times. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  6. ^ Meloy, Maile (December 22, 2003). "Hot or Cold". New Yorker. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  7. ^ Meloy, Maile (May 20, 2007). "Domestic Disturbances: A review of Helen Simpson's "In the Driver's Seat"". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
  8. ^ "Zacharis Award Winner Maile Meloy". Ploughshares. Winter 2003–2004. Archived from the original on June 9, 2007. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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