Christine Sneed

Christine Sneed is an American novelist and short story writer, a graduate fiction professor at Northwestern University and for Regis University's low-residency MFA program. She is the recipient of the Chicago Public Library Foundation's 21st Century Award, Ploughshares' Zacharis Prize for a First Book, the Society of Midland Authors Fiction Prize, and the 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize.

She grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Libertyville, Illinoisand graduated from Georgetown University where she studied French language and literature, and from Indiana University with an MFA in creative writing.

Her work has appeared in 2008 Best American Short Stories, 2012 O.Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, Ploughshares, New England Review, Southern Review, Meridian, Glimmer Train, Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, Greensboro Review," New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and a number of other periodicals.

She lives in Evanston, Illinois.

• The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury), September 13, 2016. ISBN 978-1620406953
• Paris, He Said (Bloomsbury), May 5, 2015. ISBN 978-1620406922
• Little Known Facts (Bloomsbury), February 12, 2013. ISBN 978-1608199587
• Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry University of Massachusetts Press, November 30, 2010. ISBN 978-1-55849-858-7
• O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 (Anchor); short story "The First Wife," April 17, 2012, ISBN 978-0307947888
• The Best American Prize Stories 2008 (Houghton Mifflin); short story "Quality of Life," October 8, 2008, ISBN 978-0618788774

• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/books/review/paris-he-said-by-christine-sneed.html?_r=0 (NYTBR, June 5, 2015)
• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/books/review/little-known-facts-by-christine-sneed.html?pagewanted=all (NYTBR, cover review, February 24, 2013)
• Paul Wilner (December 26, 2010). "'Portraits ...,' by Christine Sneed: review". The San Francisco Chronicle. 
• "Interview with the Second Wife" by Christine Sneed, The Collagist, Lori Ostlund