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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Michelle Herman
Bio
Books
Close-Up, a novel. Columbus, Georgia: Columbus State University of Georgia Press/DLJ. Books, 2022.
Devotion: A Novel. San Francisco/New York: Outpost19, 2016.
Like A Song: Essays. San Francisco/New York: Outpost19, 2015.
A Girl’s Guide to Life, a book for children. New York: Thought Catalog Books, 2015.
Stories We Tell Ourselves: Dream Life and Seeing Things. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction), 2013.
Dog: A Short Novel. San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2005. Paperback edition, 2006. Italian edition, 2006. Milan: Baldini & Castoldi. Brazilian edition, 2009. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Bertrand. Reprinted in the U.S. by Outpost19, 2016.
The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Paperback edition, 2013.
A New and Glorious Life, stories and novellas. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998.
Missing, a novel. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1990. Paperback edition, 1991.
Weekly Column: “Care and Feeding,” Slate, https://slate.com/author/michelle-herman, July 2019-
Short fiction and essays featured in a wide variety of periodicals, including Story, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, American Scholar, O the Oprah Magazine, The Sun, Ploughshares, and Redbook, and anthologized in such volumes as New York Diaries: 1609-2009 (Modern Library), Stumbling and Raging: Politically Inspired Stories (MacAdam/Cage), and American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories (U of Nebraska Press). Theatrical production: “Tyler and Althea,” a one-act play, Ursinus College.
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS (selected)
Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence, 2020
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist’s Fellowships in Fiction,1989, 1999, 2020
The Best American Stories 2017, Distinguished Story
Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Nonfiction, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2016
The Best American Essays 2016, Notable Essay
Yaddo Artists’ Colony Fellow, summer 2016, summer 1990
Like A Song one of O, the Oprah Magazine’s “Ten Books to Pick Up,” April 2015
Stories We Tell Ourselves finalist for the 2014 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
The Best American Essays 2012, Notable Essay
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist’s Fellowships in Creative Nonfiction ($5000), 2004 and 2009.
The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008, Notable Spiritual Writing
The Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses, Special Mention, Creative Nonfiction
The Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses, Special Mention, Creative Nonfiction
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Finalist (Autobiography/Memoir), 2006
Ohioana Award for Editorial Excellence, 2004
Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant in Fiction, 2003
MacDowell Artists’ Colony Fellowship, 1993
Hadassah/Harold U. Ribalow Award for Best Jewish Book of the Year, for Missing, 1991.
Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship (Stanford University), offered 1988 (declined).
James Michener Fellowship, the Copernicus Society of America, 1987.
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship in Fiction, 1986.