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- John Mcmanus
- Assistant Professor
- English
- 5000 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3991
- jmcmanus@odu.edu
- Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1977, John McManus lives and works in Cape Charles, Virginia. John McManus is the author
of three widely praised books of fiction that have been reviewed in over 100 print publications, including the Los Angeles
Times and Washington Post. In 2000 he became the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious Whiting Writers Award for Stop
Breakin Down.
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Education
- James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin,
2004
- Major: Creative Writing
- Degree: M.F.A.
- Hollins University,
2001
- Major: English and Creative Writing
- Degree: M.A.
- Goucher College,
1999
- Major: English Literature
- Degree: B.A.
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Books
- McManus, J. A Mist Went Up from the Face of the Ground. Surreal South 2.
- McManus, J. (2005). Bitter Milk (novel). Picador.
- McManus, J. (2003). Born on a Train (short stories). Picador.
- McManus, J. (2000). Stop Breakin Down (short stories). Picador.
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Book Chapters
- McManus, J. (2003). The Earl of Crediton. - In While You Were Sleeping.
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Articles
- McManus, J. (2009). Outnumbering the Dead. Grist
- McManus, J. (2005). Bluegrass Man. The Oxford American (Summer Music Issue)
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- 2005: Caldera Arts Residency, Sisters, Oregon
- 2007: Corporation of Yaddo Fellowship
- 2001: Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writers Award, in recognition of distinguished achievement in Southern writing
- 2008: Robert M. MacNamara Foundation Residency
- 2006: Shortlisted for the 2006 Weatherford Award (for Bitter Milk) presented by Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association,
Berea, Kentucky
- 2000: Whiting Writers’ Award
- Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Cassis, France
- James A. Michener fellowship in fiction at the Michener Center for Writers