Mary Troy
Title: Associate Professor
Office: 447 Lucas
Phone: (314) 516-6845
e-mail: marytroy@umsl.edu
MARY TROY (MFA University of Arkansas) is the author of three
short story collections:
Cookie
Lily, 2004,
The
Alibi Cafe and other stories, 2003, and the collection
Joe
Baker is Dead, 1998, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner
award. She has published stories widely in The Greensboro
Review, Sou'wester, The American Literary Review, Boulevard,
the Chicago Tribune, and other journals. Her essays have
appeared in anthologies and newspapers. She won a Nelson
Algren award, and had thrice been nominated for Pushcart
Prizes.
CLICK HERE to
listen to Mary Troy's discussion of The Alibi Cafe
and Joe Baker is Dead with UMKC professor Michael
Pritchett on New Letters.
(Requires Real
Player)
CLICK
HERE to read a recent interview with Mary from The
Kansas City Star.
Teaching Interests
Creative Writing--especially fiction writing, form and
theory of fiction, contemporary literature, expository
writing, journal editing
Publications
Book:
Joe
Baker Is Dead, a collection of short stories,
University of Missouri Press, May 1998 (nominated
for Pen Faulkner Award).
The
Alibi Cafe and Other Stories, BkMk Press, 2003.
Cookie
Lily, Texas A&M University Press,
2004.
Stories:
Dozens published and accepted by journals such as Boulevard,
North American Review, American Literary Review,
two included in American Fiction anthology, three
nominated for Pushcart prizes, one a Nelson Algren Award
winner ("Do You Believe In The Chicken Hanger?", published
in the Chicago Tribune, 1999).
Articles:
- "What Makes a Great Book Great, " Conference on the
Core and The Canon, 1992.
- "Jean Rhys' Women," SMLA Proceedings, 1990.
- Interview with BkMk
Press, 2003.
