Maya Sonenberg is the author of the story collections Cartographies (winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 1989), Voices from the Blue Hotel (Chiasmus Press, 2007), and Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters which received the Richard Sullivan Prize for Fiction in 2022. Her chapbooks of prose and images include 26 Abductions (The Cupboard) and After the Death of Shostakovich Père (PANK Books).  More recent fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Fairy Tale Review, Web Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, New Ohio Review, The Literarian, and Hotel Amerika. She has received grants from the Washington State Arts Commission and King County 4Culture and teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Website: mayasonenberg.com

Twitter Username: @MzzS36019

Publications

• Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters , University of Notre Dame Press (August 1, 2022)
• After the Death of Shostakovich Père , PANK Books (April 1, 2018)
• 26 Abductions , The Cupboard (April 10, 2015)
• Voices from the Blue Hotel , Chiasmus Press (February 2007)
• Cartographies , University of Pittsburgh Press (1989)

Awards

• Drue Heinz Literature Prize(1989)
• Individual Artist Project Award, 4Culture(2009)
• Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship(2007)
• Richard Sullivan Prize for Fiction(2022)

Employment

• Professor at University of Washington (September 1993 - )
• Assistant Professor at Oregon State University (September 1990 - June 1993)

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from Wesleyan University (June 1982)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brown University (June 1984)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction