Becky Hagenston
------------------------------------------------- Becky Hagenston grew up in Maryland. She received
her MFA from the University of Arizona and her Becky Hagenston
received her Masters in English from New Mexico State University
in Spring 2000. She is currently a faculty member in Creative
Writing at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.
Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including
TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The Crescent Review, Antietam Review,
Folio, Press, Witness, and Carolina Quarterly. She has
received an O. Henry Award and a Bread Loaf Scholarship. Her
short story collection, A Gram of Mars, was published in 1998 by Sarabande Books, and received the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and the 1999 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. She has also taught at NMSU. Her play, Welcome to the Family, was produced by the Las Cruces Community Theater as part of its one-act play festival, and she won the 2001 Julia Peterkin Award for her short story entitled For a Living. -------------------------------------------------------- Hagenston featured author at 2002 Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at MUW. Robert Boswell recommends A Gram of Mars in Ploughshares. Hagenston is an English faculty member in Creative Writing at MSU. Sarabande books is the publisher and provides information about A Gram of Mars. Read numerous published reviews of A Gram of Mars on Amazon.com.
Hagenston wins third in The Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. Late night readings get underway with readings by the 1997 Bread Loaf Scholars: Elizabeth Arnold, Kevin Boyle, Stephen Burt, David Gilbert, Martha Greenwald, Becky Hagenston, Richard Hague, and others.
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