Stegner, Lynn 1957–

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Stegner, Lynn 1957–

(Lynn Marie Stegner)

PERSONAL:

Born February 3, 1957, in Seattle, WA; daughter of William G. Moultray and Betty R. Murphy; married S. Page Stegner (a writer and professor), July 19, 1986; children: Mary Allison. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: Attended Cabrillo College, 1975-76; University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A. (with honors), 1979. Politics: Independent. Religion: "Existentialist." Hobbies and other interests: Environmental matters, river running, wine.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Santa Fe, NM. Agent—Michael Congdon, Don Congdon Associates, Inc., 156 5th Ave., Ste. 625, New York, NY 10010. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

A.L. Romano Wine Co., Inc., San Francisco, CA, representative and wine consultant, 1980-82; Monterey Bay Wine Co., Inc., Monterey, CA, vice president of marketing, importing, and production firm and wine brokerage, 1982-91; University of California, Santa Cruz, visiting writer, 1991-92, lecturer, between 1994 and 2000; editorial consultant, 2000—. Santa Fe Writers' Workshop, director, 2003—; Santa Fe Short Story Festival, board member, 2005; College of Santa Fe, instructor, 2005; workshop teacher and lecturer; judge of literature awards. University of California Foundation, trustee and cochair of development committee, 1998—.

MEMBER:

PEN, Council on International Relations, Fulbright Association, Utah Boatman Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Fellow of Squaw Valley Community of Writers, 1978; fellow of Western States/California Arts Council, 1993-94; "critics' choice" selection, Voice of America, 1993, for Undertow, and 1995, for Fata Morgana; Margaret Bridgman fellow in fiction, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1994; Gold Medal for best novellas, Faulkner Society, 1997, and Tsujinaka Award for Fiction, 1999, both for "Hired Man"; literature fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 2000; Fulbright scholar at National University of Ireland, Galway, 2001-02; Bridport Prize for the short story, Bristol, England, 2002; Raymond Carver Short Story Award, 2004; William Wisdom/William Faulkner Award for best novel, 2005, for Because a Fire Was in My Head.

WRITINGS:

Undertow (novel), Baskerville Publishers (Dallas, TX), 1993.

Fata Morgana (novel), Baskerville Publishers (Dallas, TX), 1995.

Pipers at the Gates of Dawn (triptych of novellas), University Press of New England (Hanover, NY), 2000.

(Editor and author of foreword) Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction, Penguin Putnam (New York, NY), 2003.

Because a Fire Was in My Head (novel), University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 2007.

Author of the novella "Hired Man." Author of introduction, Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner, (Penguin), 2004; work represented in anthologies, including The Geography of Hope, Sierra Club Books, 1996; and Southern Lights, 1998. Contributor to Global Vintage, Santa Fean, and Trend. Assistant editor, Quarry West, 1978; editor, A Day on the Bay, 1980.