Hagy, Alyson Carol

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Laramie, WY 82072

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Albany County

Biographical and Professional Information

Alyson Hagy was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. A graduate of Williams College and the MFA Program at the University of Michigan, she is the author of four collections of short fiction, Madonna On Her Back (Stuart Wright, 1986), Hardware River (Poseidon Press, 1991), Graveyard of the Atlantic (Graywolf Press, 2000) Ghosts of Wyoming (Graywolf Press, 2010) and two novels, Keeneland (Simon & Schuster, 2000) and Snow, Ashes (Graywolf Press, 2007). Her stories have most recently appeared in Shenandoah, Five Points, and the Virginia Quarterly Review and on National Public Radio, and they have been awarded a Nelson Algren Prize, a Syndicated Fiction Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her story “Search Bay” was also included in Best American Short Stories 1997. Hagy lives in Laramie, Wyoming and teaches at the University of Wyoming.

Genres

Fiction

Titles

• Ghosts of Wyoming (2010). Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press. ISBN: 9781555975487.

• Snow, Ashes (2007). Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press. ISBN-10: 1555974686. ISBN-13: 978-1555974688

• Graveyard of the Atlantic: Short stories (2000). Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press. ISBN: 1555973019.

• Keeneland (2000). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 0684855038.

• Hardware River Stories (1991). New York: Poseidon Press. ISBN: 0671681117.

• Madonna on Her Back: Stories (1986). Publisher City, State: S. Wright. ISBN: 0913773190.

Speaking Engagements

Accepts speaking engagements.

Contact:

Alyson Hagy

c/o UW English Department

Dept. 3353

Laramie, WY 82071

Upcoming appearances

AWP Convention, Denver, Colorado, April 7-11, 2010.