Yannick Murphy
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.Awards
- 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships
- 1990 Whiting Award
- 2012 Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award for The Call
- Chesterfield Screenwriting award
- MacDowell Colony fellowship
Works
Books
Children's books
Anthologies
- Pushcart Prize XXXIX 2014, Pushcart Press
- Best Non-Required Reading 2009, Mariner Books
- The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007, Anchor Books
Stories
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- "The Good Word," One Story, Issue 109, September 2008
- "The Other End of the Line"
- "The Big Kahuna" Woof!: Writers on Dogs, Penguin Books