M. M. De Voe
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M. M. De Voe | |
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| Born | Milda Motekaitis |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | College of Notre Dame of Maryland (BA) Columbia University (MFA) |
| Children | 2 |
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M. M. De Voe (born Milda Motekaitis) is an American author.
Biography
[edit]Her parents were born in Lithuania and live in Texas. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
De Voe received her Master of Fine Arts from the Creative Writing program at Columbia University in May 2001 and her Bachelor of Arts from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, magna cum laude, in 1990.
In 2013, De Voe founded Pen Parentis, a literary nonprofit organization that provides resources to authors who are also parents. The organization hosts an annual Writing Fellowship for New Parents and runs a popular reading series in Manhattan called the Pen Parentis Literary Salons, which is curated by Christina Chiu.
A member of both Equity and SAG/AFTRA, under the name Milda DeVoe, she appeared in many plays in New York City, including The Marriage of Bette and Boo, A Lie of the Mind, Baby with the Bathwater and The Heidi Chronicles (as the title role). She still does voiceover work in both Lithuanian and English, and is one of the Lithuanian voices of OnStar.
M. M. De Voe is a Manhattan-based fiction writer who has won awards and published short fiction in nearly every genre. She holds an MFA from Columbia University where she was a Writing Fellow and where she studied under Michael Cunningham, Helen Schulman, Joyce Johnson, and thesis advisor Matthew Sharpe. She won a fellowship to the 2008 St. Petersburg Summer Literary Seminars. The manuscript of her Columbia thesis won an honorable mention in Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize as well as an Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grant for gay-positive historical fiction.
De Voe was a member of the inaugural Lithuanian Writers of the Diaspora Forum, held in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2019.
References
[edit]- Shapiro, Julie (April 18, 2011). "Downtown Writers Salon Helps Parents Balance Life and Art". DNAinfo. Archived from the original on August 19, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- "Parenting scribes meet". Downtown Express. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- Edroso, Roy (July 11, 2006). "The Rejection Connection". Village Voice. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- "St. Petersburg Review Celebrates The Launch of Black Moon". St. Petersburg Review. April 10, 2014. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- Magee, Phoebe. "Writer, Interrupted". Columbia Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 August 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- "M. M. De Voe and Arlaina Tibensky of Pen Parentis". Downtown Magazine. January 6, 2016. Retrieved January 7, 2016. (subscription required)
- BWW News Desk (April 24, 2015). "New Musical R/EVOLUTION Begins Next Month at Robert Moss Theater". Broadway World. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
- "Pen Parentis Announces Upcoming Changes". Broadway World. July 23, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
External links
[edit]- 20th-century American novelists
- Living people
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- Notre Dame of Maryland University alumni
- 21st-century American novelists
- American stage actresses
- Novelists from Texas
- Novelists from New York City
- American women novelists
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers