Master of Fine Arts

Mary Troy

 

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Title: Associate Professor
Office: 447 Lucas
Phone: (314) 516-6845
Email: marytroy@umsl.edu

Mary Troy (MFA University of Arkansas) is the author of three short story collections: "Cookie Lily", 2004, "The Alibi Cafe and Other Stories", 2003, and the collection "Joe Baker is Dead", 1998, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award. She has published stories widely in The Greensboro Review, Sou'wester, The American Literary Review, Boulevard, the Chicago Tribune, and other journals. Her essays have appeared in anthologies and newspapers. She won a Nelson Algren award, and had thrice been nominated for Pushcart Prizes.

 

Click here to hear Mary Troy's reading from Cookie Lily at Celebration of the Book.
Click Here to read a general interview with Mary Troy about The Alibi Cafe and others.
Click Here to read a recent interview with Mary about Beauties.

Teaching Interests
Creative Writing--especially fiction writing, form and theory of fiction, contemporary literature, expository writing, journal editing

Publications:

Book:
"Joe Baker Is Dead", a collection of short stories, University of Missouri Press, May 1998 (nominated for Pen Faulkner Award).

"The Alibi Cafe and Other Stories", BkMk Press, 2003.

"Cookie Lily", Texas A&M University Press, 2004.

"Beauties", A Novel, BkMk Press, 2010

Stories:
Dozens published and accepted by journals such as Boulevard, North American Review, American Literary Review, two included in American Fiction anthology, three nominated for Pushcart prizes, one a Nelson Algren Award winner ("Do You Believe In The Chicken Hanger?", published in the Chicago Tribune, 1999).

Articles:

 "What Makes a Great Book Great", Conference on the Core and The Canon, 1992.

"Jean Rhys' Women", SMLA Proceedings, 1990.

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