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Julia MacDonnell's long and varied writing career includes journalism and essays; book reviews; a short story collection and two novels in addition to her hybrid memoir, Hidden Girls, for which she was award a 2024 artist's fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. MacDonnell's 2021 story collection, The Topography of Hidden Stories, won the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award. The author and critic Joan Mellen called it, ""a triumph of imaginative grace worthy of Alice Munro. I love this book."" Her second novel, Mimi Malloy, At Last!, published by Picador in 2014, was chosen as an 'Indie Next' selection by the ABA. People Magazine called it, ""Cathartic, suspenseful and droll...Mimi offers a hopeful take on both old age and bad blood."" Her first, A Year of Favor, based loosely on the murders of the four churchwomen in El Salvador in 1979, was published in 1994 by William Morrow & Co. Kirkus praised it as ""Powerful first fiction...A convincing evocation of life in a Central American country...and a compelling portrait of a gutsy, post-feminist heroine."" Her journalism and literary writing have been recognized with three fiction fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, two Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowships for residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, two residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, and two Pushcart nominations. MacDonnell is professor emeritus in the Writing Arts department at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J. where she taught undergraduate and graduate writing classes, and developed the creative writing curriculum for its Master of Arts in Writing program. She is a former nonfiction editor of Philadelphia Stories. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, a couple of miles from her daughter Suzanne's family.

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