Elizabeth Stuckey-French
# Elizabeth Stuckey-French

Elizabeth Stuckey-French is an American short story writer, novelist and professor.

## Life

Stuckey-French was born on September 2, 1958, in Little Rock. She grew up in the town of Lafayette, IN.

She graduated from Purdue University and was founding editor of the Sycamore Review. She was a James A. Michener Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop; she graduated with an MFA in 1992. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Five Points, Narr ative. She teaches creative writing at Florida State University. Richard Russo in his commentary about the selections in the 2005 O. Henry anthology, called Stuckey-French's "Mudlavia", "the one that burrowed deepest under my skin". He praised the "simplicity of its storytelling; the way its private and public stories play off each other; its fond, gentle humor; the heartbreaking, hard-won wisdom of its narrator."

She lived in Tallahassee, Florida with her husband Ned Stuckey-French and her two daughters, Phoebe and Flannery. Ned died of cancer in June 2019.

## Awards

* 2005 O. Henry Award for the story "Mudlavia", cited by juror Richard Russo
* 2004–2005 Howard Foundation grant
* Indiana Arts Foundation grant
* Florida Arts Foundation grant

## Works

### Short stories

* "Junior," The Atlantic, April 1996
* "Electric Wizard," The Atlantic, June 1998
* "Mudlavia," The Atlantic, September 2003
* The First Paper Girl in Red Oak, Iowa. Doubleday. 2000. ISBN 978-0-385-49893-7.
* Tenderloin and other stories. 1992.

### Novels

* Mermaids on the Moon. Doubleday. 2002. ISBN 978-0-7862-4857-5.
* Mudlavia, Doubleday
* The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, Doubleday, 2011
* Where Wicked Starts, 2014

### Anthologies

* Michael Wilkerson; Deborah Galyan, eds. (1990). "Blessing". New territory: contemporary Indiana fiction. Indiana University Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-253-20595-7. Elizabeth Stuckey-French.

### Non-fiction

* Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French (2007). Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft. Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-0-321-38414-0.
