Mermaid Memoir by M. Eileen Cronin
M. Eileen Cronin’s memoir, MERMAID, is forthcoming in 2013 from W.W. Norton & Co. Her novels-in-progress have both been finalists in the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner-Wisdom competition.
Awarded the Washington Writers’ Prize in Short Fiction and a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, Eileen was also nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Third Coast, Slice, Bellevue Literary Review, and other publications.
MERMAID is about a Midwestern family with eleven children in the sixties. The author, who is missing part of her legs from birth, narrates her comic and tragic journey from middle child to motherhood.
One Response to “Mermaid Memoir by M. Eileen Cronin”
Mary Hutchings Reed says:
May 1, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Congratulations, Eileen! We met at W&M years ago and again at Tin House. So happy to hear of your publishing success! I just finished the first draft of a novel called WOMB which deals with a thalidamide baby, her sister, and mostly with her mother.
I can’t wait to read your story. You are such an inspiration! Helps me keep plugging along. All the best! Enjoy every minute of this well-deserved success!
Mary Hutchings Reed