Maggie Shipstead

Maggie Shipstead is a short fiction author and novelist that is best known for the novel “Great Circle.” She earned a Stanford Wallace Stegner Fellowship and graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop. Her writing has been featured in The Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, American Short Fiction, The San Francisco Chronicle, VQR, Tin House, and The Paris Review Daily.In 2012, she made the shortlist for the National Magazine La Moretta Award. “Seating Arrangement” her debut novel would become the winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award by the LA Times, won the Dylan Thomas Prize and would go on to become a bestseller in the US.Even though she has become quite a successful author she did not grow up with dreams of becoming an author. She was born in Orange County and in the several years she was peripatetic, reading was very prominent in her life. Her mother always thought that she would become an author but she really resisted the whole idea.