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

YearTitleAwardCategoryResultRef
1994?The Best American Short StoriesIn[3]
1997Don't Erase Me: StoriesJohn C. Zacharis First Book Award[4]
Los Angeles Times Book PrizeArt Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction[5]
Quality Paperback Book Prize
2022Dear Miss MetropolitanPEN/Hemingway Award[6]
PEN Faulkner Award[7]

Works

Anthologies

Ploughshares

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.