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Accolades & Endeavors

SHORT BIO

M. M. De Voe (she/her) is a Manhattan-based, internationally-published, multi-talented author who has won awards in literary fiction, poetry, flash, humor, essays, longform nonfiction, and horror. Known for Pen Parentis, a 501c3 literary nonprofit she founded to help maintain a creative practice for writers who have kids, she’s a Columbia University MFA graduate who studied under Michael Cunningham, Richard Howard, and Helen Schulman. Member of SFWA, ALTA, and AWP. Inaugural Member of the Lithuanian Writers of the Diaspora Forum. AEA, SAG/AFTRA actress.

Plays D&D and once ran away with a group of jugglers who remain her best friends.

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Professional Affiliations

Active participant and recognized member across prominent literary organizations.

Distinguished Alumna Honors

Regina Russo Award

Awarded for Outstanding Alumna by Miami University (2020) in recognition of continued excellence and contribution to the literary arts.

Sigma Tau Delta

Alpha-Alpha chapter's inaugural Distinguished Alumnae Award (2014).

Honor & Awards

A retrospective of literary recognition spanning three decades of dedicated craft.

Fellowships & Grants

A record of fellowships, grants, and creative support spanning years of literary and community work.

  • 2025 Grants for Pen Parentis: Poetry Foundation Grant, National
    Book Foundation Grant, Poets & Writers Grants, New York State
    Council on the Arts

  • 2024 NYSCA grant for Pen Parentis, Poetry Foundation Grant, National
    Book Foundation Grant, Poets & Writers Grants

  • 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Grant (for the creation of Full-Bleed Issue 7 with Pen Parentis and MICA)

  • 2022-23 New York State Council on the Arts grant for Pen Parentis

  • 2020-22 Creative Engagement Grant (for Pen Parentis Literary Salons) 

  • 2019 NYSCA Literature Grant (for Pen Parentis Literary Salons) 

  • 2017 Creative Engagement Grant (for Pen Parentis Literary Salons) 

  • 2012 The Fund for Creative Communities (for her work with Pen Parentis)

  • 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant (for her work with Pen Parentis)

  • Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grants for Gay-Positive Historical Fiction 

  • Fiction Fellowship: Summer Literary Seminars, St. Petersburg, Russia

  • Writing Fellow: Columbia University

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