Playing St. Barbara (Szczepanski) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Raised—Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
• Education—B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.F.A, Warren Wilson College
• Awards—Clackamas Literary Review Award (Emerging Writer in Fiction); Houston Press
  Club Magazine Feature Prize
• Currently—lives in Houston, Texas


The granddaughter of immigrant coal miners, Marian Szczepanski grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania and lived as a young child in the Jamison Coal Company house where her mother and aunts were raised.

She holds an MFA in fiction from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her short fiction has appeared in Clackamas Literary Review and won the magazine's Peter and Jean de Maine Award for an Emerging Writer. A Houston Press Club award recipient for magazine feature writing, Szczepanski also has published articles in University of Houston’s Collegium magazine and Houston Woman Magazine. Playing St. Barbara is her first novel. (From the author.)

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