Maureen Gibbon
Maureen Gibbon is an American novelist and writer. She also writers short fiction, nonfiction and reviews books. Her works have been published in several print and online publications. Gibbon has three novels, Paris Red, Swimming Sweet Arrow and Thief.
Achievements
Gibbon's most recent novel, Paris Red, was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday with Scott Simon. It was also translated into French under the title Rouge Paris and published in 2014. The American release was in 2015 under the publisher W.W. Norton. Gibbon also wrote the prose collection Magdalena. She's been published in The New York Times, Huffington Post, Playboy and other publications. Gibbon was a Bush Foundation Artist fellow in 2001, and a Loft McKnight Artists fellow in 1992 and 1999. She became an artist in residence of the Mill Foundation at the Santa Fe Arts Institute in 2006.
Education
Gibbon studied at Barnard College in New York and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Current life
Gibbon currently lives in Minnesota.
Books and Prose Collection
- Paris Red (2015)
- "Thief" (2010)
- "Magdalena" (2007)
- Swimming Sweet Arrow (2001)
Other Writing
- "My Rapist" (2006)
- "Conversations with a rapist: "How one woman healed her teenage trauma" (2010)
- "Review: 'Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country'" (2003)
- "Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds" (2007)
- "A Tale of Rape to Love or Hate" (2010)