Evelyn Maguire is a writer living in Amherst, MA. She earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she was a recipient of the James W. Foley Memorial Prize. She serves as a Senior Fiction Reader for Salamander, and works for the New England Independent Bookseller Association (NEIBA). She is the Founding Editor of the literary magazine Overheard.
Her first novel is on submission and is represented by Christopher Vyce at the Brattle Agency.
Editorial Service, etc.
Senior Fiction Reader | Salamander | 2024-
National Juror | Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | 2023-
Managing Editor | Paperbark | 2022-2023
Juniper Prize Reader | UMass Press | 2021-2023
Selected Publications
Scenes of Pre-Matrescence, forthcoming in Banshee, issue 20
That Type of Girl, in North Dakota Quarterly, issue 90.3/4
Primordial Juice, Moon City Review, 2024 Issue, recipient of the James W. Foley Memorial Prize (UMass Amherst)
The Bar at the End of the World, Salamander, issue 55
Authority and Other Delusions, Autofocus
Fascinated by Fungi, Lamplit Underground, issue 8, nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Mountain Pose, North American Review's online journal, finalist for Best of the Net
Hello, My Name is Goya Wyeth, A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales (Brigid's Gate Press)
The Problem with Loving Temporary Things, Cypress Press
My Little Sister Gave Me Lice, Unpublishable Zine
Daughterhood, Sink Hollow: Issue 8
Fort Henry, The Foundationalist: Volume II; honoree of the Peter Hanson Award given by Northeastern University