Writing

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Publications

Books

Journey to the Parallels // Fitzroy Books, an Imprint of Regal House Publishing, May, 2022 //Available Now! Winner of the 2022 Bronze Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Juvenile Fiction

Short Works

Half Life // Eleventh Hour Literary, January, 2025

Intersection// On The Premises - Second Place contest winner, April 2024

Cutouts // Money Matters contest, Principal Foundation, The Center for Fiction, and Short Édition, October 2023

Meet Me in Kathmandu // Toronto Journal, Summer 2023

Thelma vs Time // Driftwood Press, March 2023, includes interview. Pushcart nominated. Full anthology available to read online

Still Life, Circa 1989 // Honeyguide Literary Magazine, October 2021

Residential Units // upstreet no. 16, July 2020

The Why Nots and the Whys // CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Winter/Spring 2020

In A State of Near Deletion // Split Lip Magazine, August 2019*

Certified //Black Fox Literary Magazine #18, Fall 2018

Sympathy Pains // Mused, Fall 2018

Possum // The Gravity of the Thing*

We Take Care of Our Own // Blotterature, Volume 2, Issue 1*


Recognition

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year , 2022 Bronze Winner for Journey to the Parallels

Illinois Arts Council Grants, 2022 and 2020 Recipient

Kraken Book Prize for Middle-Grade Fiction, 2020 Winner for the novel The Parallels

Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, 2020 Finalist for the novel Village Crossing*

Hidden River Arts Eulidia Award, 2020 Semi-finalist for the story collection Residential Units

Autumn House Press Fiction Contest, 2019 Finalist for the story collection Residential Units*

Lorian Hemingway Short Fiction Contest, 2019 Honorable Mention for story “Cutouts”*

The Masters Review Anthology, 2018 Shortlist for story “Residential Units”


Other Links

Fiction Editor Interview// Baltimore Review Blog

Interview with Yona Zeldis McDonough // Lilith Magazine

Odds and Ends and Beginnings // Fitzroy Books

Just One Thing with Marcie Friedman // Split Lip Magazine


*As Marcie Friedman