Melissa Pritchard
Author of a biography and six books of fiction, most recently Disappearing Ingenue and Late Bloomer (both Doubleday/Anchor), Melissa Pritchard (author page at Amazon) has received numerous awards, including the Flannery O’Connor and Carl Sandburg Awards, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, several O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes, and Hawthornden International, Howard Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Recent work appears in Conjunctions, IMAGE, AGNI, and A Public Space, and she is completing a fourth collection of stories, The Odditorium. (updated 8/2009)
AGNI has published the following work by Melissa Pritchard:
| •The Nine-Gated City |

