Carolyn Ferrell Explained

Carolyn Ferrell
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Education:	Sarah Lawrence College City College of New York (MA)
Awards:	John C. Zacharis First Book Award (1997) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (1997)
Spouse:	Linwood Lewis

Carolyn Ferrell (born 1962, Brooklyn, New York) is an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

Ferrell graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and City College of New York with an MA.She has lived, worked, and studied in West Berlin, Manhattan, and the South Bronx.She is married to and has children with psychology professor Linwood Lewis.

Her work has appeared in The Literary Review, Callaloo, Fiction, and Sojourner: The Women’s Forum.

She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.^{[1] [2]}

Awards

Year	Title	Award	Category	Result	Ref
1994	?	The Best American Short Stories	—	In	^[3]
1997	Don't Erase Me: Stories	John C. Zacharis First Book Award	—		^[4]
		Los Angeles Times Book Prize	Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction		^[5]
		Quality Paperback Book Prize	—
2022	Dear Miss Metropolitan	PEN/Hemingway Award	—		^[6]
		PEN Faulkner Award	—		^[7]

Works

• Book: ferrell . Don't Erase Me: Stories . Houghton Mifflin . 1997 . 9780395713273 . en . 2 .
• Book: ferrell . Dear Miss Metropolitan . Holt . 2021 . 9781250793614 . en . 2 . ^{[8] [9]}

Anthologies

• Book: Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America . registration . 39 . A Child's Garden of Verse . Susan Richards Shreve . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . 2003 . 978-0-618-37902-6.
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=-0ZMc63Kbv8C&dq=Carolyn+Ferrell&pg=PA705. Proper Library. The best American short stories of the century. John Updike . Katrina Kenison. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2000. 978-0-395-84367-3 .
• Book: This is not chick lit: original stories by America's best women writers. Elizabeth Merrick. Random House, Inc.. 2006. 978-0-8129-7567-3 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=YLQDt6ryyPwC&dq=Carolyn+Ferrell&pg=PA72. Wonderful Teen. Shaking the tree: a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women. Meri Nana-Ama Danquah. W. W. Norton & Company. 2003. 978-0-393-05067-7 .

Ploughshares

• "Proper Library", Ploughshares, Spring 1993
• "Tiger Frame Glasses", Ploughshares, Spring 1997

Notes and References

1. Book: Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Yolanda Williams Page. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2007. 978-0-313-33429-0 .
2. https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/undergraduate/arts/writing/faculty.html Writing Faculty
3. Web site: Proper Library by Carolyn Ferrell on Writing Atlas — Short Story Summary. . 2023-08-24 . writingatlas.com.
4. Web site: John C. Zacharis First Book Award Awards and Honors LibraryThing . 2024-04-05 . LibraryThing.com . en.
5. Web site: Archives . L. A. Times . 1998-02-25 . L.A. Times Announces 1997 Book Prize Winners . 2024-04-05 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
6. Web site: 2022-01-26 . Announcing the 2022 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists . 2024-04-05 . PEN America . en.
7. Web site: Announcing the Winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction The PEN/Faulkner Foundation . 2024-04-05 . www.penfaulkner.org.
8. Web site: Dear Miss Metropolitan. live. 29 June 2021. Macmillan Publishers. https://web.archive.org/web/20210209173214/https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250793614 . 2021-02-09 .
9. Web site: Ferrell . Carolyn . Carolyn Ferrell: Sarah Lawrence College Faculty Page . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200927141127/https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/faculty/ferrell-carolyn.html . 2020-09-27 . 29 June 2021 . Sarah Lawrence College.