Maureen Brady

Maureen Brady started this auspicious habit of expressing herself with words by writing the humor column for her Junior High School newspaper, then went on to publish 4 novels, including Ginger's Fire and Folly, and a collection of short stories, as well as the nonfiction Daybreak: Meditations for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Midlife. Her first novel, Give Me Your Good Ear, was published by Spinsters Ink and The Women's Press in England, followed by Folly, which was excerpted in Southern Exposure and received wide critical acclaim. It was nominated by Adrienne Rich for an ALA Gay Book Award and later reprinted as a classic by The Feminist Press. Her new novel, Getaway, will be released by Bacon Press Books May 1, 2018. Other recent work has appeared in Sinister Wisdom, Bellevue Literary Review; Just Like A Girl; Cabbage and Bones: Irish American Women's Fiction, Mom, In the Family, and Intersections: An Anthology of Banff Writers. Brady's essays and stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and were finalists for the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize and the Nelsen Algren Short Story contest. She teaches creative writing at New York University and New York Writers Workshop @​ the Jewish Community Center, and works as a free-lance editor, helping writers across the spectrum take their writing to the next stage. A founding member of The New York Writers Workshop, she has also long served as Board President of Money for Women Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She has received grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts Writer-in-Residence; New York State Council on the Arts CAPS grant; Holding Our Own; Briarcombe Foundation; and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship to The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. She was the winner of the Saints and Sinners short story contest for 2015 and is also a Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame winner. She lives in New York City and Woodstock with her long term partner, Martha, and their joy dog, Bessie.