Marcy Dermansky - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Marcy Dermansky is an American

United States

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film critic and author

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. Her debut novel Twins was published in 2005 by William Morrow

William Morrow and Company

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. Bad Marie, her second novel, was published in 2010 by Harper Perennial

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Marcy received fellowships from MacDowell

MacDowell Colony

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and the Edward Albee Ranch. She is the winner of the 2002 Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus

Andre Dubus

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Novella Award, and the 1999 Story Magazine Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including McSweeneys, The Alaska Quarterly Review

The Alaska Quarterly Review

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, and The Indiana Review, and included in the anthology Love Stories: A Literary Companion to Tennis. She is a film critic for About.com and belongs to New York Film Critics Online

New York Film Critics Online

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. She lives in Astoria, Queens

Astoria, Queens

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with her husband, the writer Jürgen Fauth and their daughter Nina.

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