Midge Raymond

Fiction Writer

New York, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Midge Raymond is the author of the novels Floreana and My Last Continent and the award-winning short-story collection Forgetting English. She is co-author, with John Yunker, of the mystery novel Devils Island. Her writing has appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, Bellevue Literary Review, the Los Angeles Times magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Poets & Writers, and many other publications. Midge has taught writing at Boston University, Boston's Grub Street Writers, Seattle's Richard Hugo House, and San Diego Writers, Ink. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, where she is co-founder of the boutique publisher Ashland Creek Press.

Literary agent: 
Kathy Schneider, Jane Rotrosen Agency

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Floreana (Little A, 2025)
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My Last Continent (Scribner, 2016)
,
Forgetting English (Press 53, 2011)
Prizes won: 

Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, FORGETTING ENGLISH Redivider’s 2011 Fiction Prize, for “The Longest Part of the Night” Indiana Review’s 2004 Fiction Prize, for “First Sunday” Georgia State University Review/new south Fiction Prize, for “Forgetting English” The Improper Bostonian’s Short Fiction Contest, for “Two Lies and a Truth” Witness’s Short-Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers, for “Anodyne”

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Raised in: 
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Last update: Jan 24, 2024