CRONE, MOIRA
PROFESSOR
212-N Allen Hall
578-2987
moiracrone@aol.com
Education: B.A., Smith; M.A., Johns Hopkins.
Field: creative writing, fiction.
Publications/Books: What Gets Into Us, 2006) (Story Cycle) Dream State (stories,1995); A Period of Confinement (1986); The Winnebago Mysteries and Other Stories (1982); short stories in various journals, including the New Yorker, Triquarterly, Mademoiselle, Ohio Review , Gettysburg Review, Missouri Review and stories anthologized in Best New Stories From the South (1990 & 1996, 2001, and 2005); New Stories by Southern Women (1989); Various Gifts: Brooklyn Fiction of the Eighties (1987); American Made (1986).
Editing: Journal of Caribbean Literature, New Southern Writing (1980). Series Editor of University Press of Mississippi Fiction Series, 1997-2001, including the selection of two books that were New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
Awards and honors: Pirates Alley Faulkner Society Award for Short Fiction, 1993;Faulkner/Wisdom Prize for Novella, 2004, ATLAS Grant for 2005-6, NEA Fellowship, 1990. "Magical Realism," special issue, Janus Head (2002).
Grants and awards: LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2000; EGSA Outstanding Graduate Professor, 1995; NEH Higher Education Grant for Comparative Literature Summer Institute "Poetics of the Americas," 1994; Louisiana Board of Regents Grants for Comparative Literature Institutes and Colloquia, 1992, 1994, 1996; Newberry Library Grant, 1987-88.