Marylee MacDonald is the author of Bonds of Love & Blood, Montpelier Tomorrow, and The Rug Bazaar. She has taught at the Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, and been Writer-in-Residence for the City of Mesa Public Library.

Her fiction has won the Barry Hannah Prize, the ALR Fiction Award, the Ron Rash Award, the Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award, the Matt Clark Prize, a Gold Medal for Drama from the Readers' Favorites International Book Awards, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Fiction. Her work has appeared in the American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, Broad River Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Folio, Four Quarters, NEW SUN RISING: Stories for Japan, North Atlantic Review, Raven Chronicles, Reunion, River Oak Review, ROLL, Ruminate, StoryQuarterly, Superstition Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Yalobusha Review, and others. She lives in Tempe, AZ.

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