Christine Sneed


Christine Sneed is an American novelist and short story writer, a graduate fiction professor at Northwestern University and for Regis University's low-residency MFA program. She is the recipient of the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award, Ploughshares' Zacharis Prize for a First Book, the Society of Midland Authors Fiction Prize, and the 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize.

Life

Born September 24, 1971, she grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Libertyville, Illinois and graduated from Georgetown University where she studied French language and literature, and from Indiana University with an MFA in creative writing.
Her work has appeared in 2008 Best American Short Stories, 2012 O.Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, Ploughshares, New England Review, Southern Review, Meridian, Glimmer Train, Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, Greensboro Review, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and a number of other periodicals.
She lives in Pasadena, California.

Works