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M. M. De Voe (she/her) is a Manhattan-based, internationally-published writer who has won awards in literary fiction, poetry, flash, humor, essays, longform nonfiction, and horror. Known for Pen Parentis, a 501c3 literary nonprofit she founded in 2014 to help foster creativity in writers who have kids, she’s a Columbia University MFA graduate.

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Books include a 2020 Shirley Jackson award-winning anthology TWISTED BOOK OF SHADOWS (ed. Christopher Golden), A FLASH OF DARKNESS: COLLECTED STORIES OF M. M. DE VOE (Borda Books 2023), and her 2021 prize-winning nonfiction guide for productive creativity during parenthood, BOOK & BABY.

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Columbia MFA graduate and Writing Fellow, M. M. De Voe writes internationally-acclaimed speculative and literary fiction and poetry. Her debut short-story collection A FLASH OF DARKNESS (Borda Books, 2023) was reviewed by Kirkus as "Ominous, masterfully-conceived psychological fiction." (full review here) 

 

She is also the founder of the literary nonprofit Pen Parentis, and the author of the fun instructional memoir, Book & Baby, which won first place in writing/publishing at the 2021 Indie Awards. She lives in Manhattan where she spends her days reveling in irony.

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She has won multiple arts grants and more than twenty literary awards. She also danced for the Pope and ran away with a group of jugglers. 

M. M. De Voe has won awards, mention, or been shortlisted for the following awards:

Additionally her fiction has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes, as well as Best of the Net and Best of the Web short fiction prizes.

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She won the inaugural Regina Russo Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the University of Notre Dame of Maryland in June 1999, and won Sigma Tau Delta's Alpha-Alpha chapter's inaugural Distinguished Alumnae Award in 2014. 

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De Voe is also the recipient of the following fellowships and grants:

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  • 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Grant (for the creation of Full-Bleed Issue 7 with Pen Parentis and MICA)

  • 2022-23 New York State Council on the Arts grant for Pen Parentis

  • 2020-22 Creative Engagement Grant (for Pen Parentis Literary Salons) 

  • 2019 NYSCA Literature Grant (for Pen Parentis Literary Salons) 

  • 2017 Creative Engagement Grant (for Pen Parentis Literary Salons) 

  • 2012 The Fund for Creative Communities (for her work with Pen Parentis)

  • 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant (for her work with Pen Parentis)

  • Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grants for Gay-Positive Historical Fiction 

  • Fiction Fellowship: Summer Literary Seminars, St. Petersburg, Russia

  • Writing Fellow: Columbia University

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