Melissa Pritchard is the author of two short story collections, The Instinct for Bliss and Spirit Seizures, and two novels, Phoenix and Selene of the Spirits. Pritchard was awarded a Pushcart Prize for “Funktionslust,” which appeared in The Paris Review. Her story “Salve Regina” was included in Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards. Among numerous other awards, she has received the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Howard Foundation Fellowship from Brown University. She is Director of the M.F.A. Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University and is on the faculty of Spalding University.
“There is so much in Pritchard’s talent that amazes: her dazzling
language, the constant surprise of her details, the keen eye for
dishonesty and disappointment.” —The Chicago Tribune
“Pritchard’s writing is precise and lucid . . . sharp and funny.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Wildly imaginative. . . . Endearingly quirky.” —Glamour
“Delightfully odd.” —Entertainment Weekly
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