50/100 word bio for press:
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.
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Books include a Shirley Jackson award-winning anthology (TWISTED BOOK OF SHADOWS, edited by Christopher Golden), A FLASH OF DARKNESS: COLLECTED STORIES OF M. M. DE VOE (Borda Books 2023), and her first-prize-winning guide for productive creativity during parenthood, BOOK & BABY.
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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.
List of Awards
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M. M. De Voe has won awards, mention, or been shortlisted for the following awards:
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2024 - second place for Women on Writing Essay
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2022 Hiraeth Publishing Drabble Content Honorable Mention
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2021 Pushcart nomination for short fiction
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First Place 2021 Indie Book Awards (writing/publishing books)
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Included in 2020 Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology
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Included in 2020 Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthology
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Spring 2016 #AWPPoem Haiku Contest winner
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2014 #NYCPoetweet winner
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2013 Bridport Prize (shortlisted: top 100 of 5800 entries)
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The Wake, five-word poetry contest (2012, winner)
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Carve Magazine Fiction contest (2011, short story, finalist)
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2010 NMW short-short fiction award (first prize, $500)
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The Campaign for Real Fear (2010, one of 20 winners)
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2009 Literal Latte Short-Short Fiction Contest (first prize, $1,000)
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2009 Wordstock Short Fiction Award (top ten anthologized)
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2008 Eric Hoffer Award for Best New Writing (short story, finalist)
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Sojourn's 2007 Editor's Choice Award (Work in Fiction, winner)
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Best of the First Line 2006 (short story, winner)
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The 2004 Dana Awards (unpublished novel, top ten shortlist)
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The 2004 Bellwether Prize (unpublished novel, honorable mention)
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Fish Publishing’s 2003 Short Story Prize (short list)
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H. E. Francis Short Story Competition 2002 (finalist)
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Phoebe’s 2001 Short Story Contest (second prize)
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PRISM: international 1999 Short Fiction Competition (honorable mention)
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nowCulture.com’s 1998 Annual Poetry Contest (second prize)
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The 1997 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Competition (second prize)
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The Lyric’s 1990 National Poetry Contest (first prize, $1,000)
Additionally her fiction has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes, as well as Best of the Net and Best of the Web short fiction prizes.
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She won the inaugural Regina Russo Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the University of Notre Dame of Maryland in June 1999, and won Sigma Tau Delta's Alpha-Alpha chapter's inaugural Distinguished Alumnae Award in 2014.
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De Voe is also the recipient of the following fellowships and grants:
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2023 National Endowment for the Arts Grant (for the creation of Full-Bleed Issue 7 with Pen Parentis and MICA)
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2022-23 New York State Council on the Arts grant for Pen Parentis
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2020-22 Creative Engagement Grant (for Pen Parentis Literary Salons)
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2019 NYSCA Literature Grant (for Pen Parentis Literary Salons)
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2017 Creative Engagement Grant (for Pen Parentis Literary Salons)
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2012 The Fund for Creative Communities (for her work with Pen Parentis)
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2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant (for her work with Pen Parentis)
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Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grants for Gay-Positive Historical Fiction
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Fiction Fellowship: Summer Literary Seminars, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Writing Fellow: Columbia University
