Marcy Dermansky




Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie and Twins.

Her books have been New York Times Editors Choice and Indie Next selections, received rave reviews in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Today Show, People Magazine, Time, Esquire, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere, and been praised by authors like Roxane Gay, Emma Straub, Maria Semple, Kevin Kwan and luminaries like Sarah Jessica Parker.

Marcy’s short fiction has been widely published and anthologized, appearing in McSweeney’s, Guernica, The Indiana Review, Lenny Letter and elsewhere. Her essay “Maybe I Loved You” appeared in the best-selling anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.

Marcy has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and The Edward Albee Foundation. She is the winner of the Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and Story Magazine Carson McCullers short story prize. Marcy received her Bachelor of Arts at Haverford College and her Master of Arts at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her daughter Nina.

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