Author Bio
• Birth—1976
• Raised—in Senegal, West Africa, and Vermont, USA
• Education—B.A., Vassar College
• Awards—Crazyhorse Fiction Prize; Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
• Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is an American author who spent part of her early years in Senegal, West Africa, with her two academic parents who were conducting ethnographic research. The family returned to American, living in Vermont. She spent her childhood summers on Lake Champlain, a setting similar to Bittersweet's lake Winloch. Miranda graduated from Vassar with a degree in English and went on to New York to work for the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y.
She is the author of three novels, including The Effects of Light (2005), Set Me Free (2007, winner of 2007 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best book of fiction by an American woman), and Bittersweet (2014). A recipient of the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, she lives and writes in Brooklyn and Vermont. (Bio compiled by LitLovers.)
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