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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
De Voe is also the recipient of the following fellowships and grants:
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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)
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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
