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Miriam Gershow is the author of Closer, Survival Tips: Stories and The Local News. Her writing is featured in The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, and Black Warrior Review, among other journals. She is the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, an Oregon Literary Fellowship, and is a two-time finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She is the organizer of “100 Notable Small Press Books,” a curated list of the year’s recommended books from independent publishers.

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Selected Honors and Awards

• Finalist, Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, Oregon Book Awards, 2025 & 2009

• Best Book, Survival Tips: Stories, Pencraft Book Awards, 2024

• Silver Medalist, Survival Tips: Stories, Independent Publishers Book Awards, 2024

• Winner, “Lines of Communication,” Variant Lit Pizza Prize, 2022.

• Writer-in-Residence. Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, 2022

• Writer-in-Residence. Playa, 2022

• Writer-in-Residence. Wildacres, 2019.

• Writer-in-Residence. Hypatia-in-the-Woods, 2019

• Winner. “Last Saturday in April,” Wordcrafters’ Step Into Stories, 2017

• Oregon Literary Fellowship, Literary Arts, Portland Oregon, 2006

• James C. McCreight Fiction Fellowship, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, 2002-2003

• Winner, “Little Girl.” Associated Writing Program’s Intro Journals Project, 2002

Press Contacts

Publicist: Ann-Marie Nieves, Get Red PR, (914) 393-1359, am@getredpr.com

Publisher: Regal House Publishing; info@regalhousepublishing.com