M. M. De Voe

M. M. De Voe holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Writing Fellow who studied under Michael Cunningham as well as Joyce Johnson, Helen Schulman, Stephen Koch, Nicholas Delbanco, Matthew Sharpe, and Michael Scammel.

Her short fiction is internationally acclaimed and has won more than 20 mentions and awards, including four Pushcart Prizes in short fiction. Her debut short fiction collection, A FLASH OF DARKNESS, was published by Borda Books in 2023.

In urban fantasy, horror, and science-fiction, M. M. De Voe was included in the Shirley Jackson award-winning anthology Twisted Book of Shadows and nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. She also won the International Campaign for Real Fear hosted by Black Static Magazine and was subsequently published in Daily Science Fiction, BuzzyMag.com, SpeckLit, and various anthologies including The Lane of Unusual Traders (Tiny Owl Press, Brisbane Australia) and Great Britain's Ellipsis Magazine.

Anthologized alongside author-heroes Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood in "Stirring up a Storm" (Thunder’s Mouth Press), her story, "Overheard", was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

The manuscript for her novel "The Boy Who Loved Trees" was a finalist for The Bellwether Prize and The Dana Awards, and won a grant from the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation for gay-positive historical fiction.

The founder of the literary nonprofit, Pen Parentis, she has co-hosted their monthly literary salons in Lower Manhattan for more than ten years. She has won more than ten arts grants (including grants from New York City and New York State and the NEA) for her work inspiring writers who are also parents to remain on creative track.

Her nonfiction guide to writing while parenting, BOOK & BABY, won first prize in writing/publishing at the 2021 Indie Book Awards. It was her first book and includes interviews with many famous writer-parents like Min Jin Lee, Helen Phillips, JP Howard, and Patty Dann.

She won the inaugural Regina Russo Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from her alma mater, and was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award from the Sigma Tau Delta Alpha Alpha Chapter in 2014. She attended the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg Russia where she was a Fellow, and is a frequent attendee of the Lithuanian Writers of the Diaspora forum in Vilnius, Lithuania.