Vermont College of Fine Arts

ABBY FRUCHT’s new collection of stories is forthcoming from Narrative Library.  She is the author of five novels including Licorice, Life Before Death,  and Polly's Ghost. Her earlier collection of stories, Fruit of the Month, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize in 1987, will soon be available in ebook form along with Abby’s other books as part of Dzanc Books’ new rEprint series..  A recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a New Voices Award from Quality Paperback Book Club, several grants from the Ohio Arts Council, and the Kay W. Levin Short Non-Fiction award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers, Abby has reviewed both fiction and nonfiction nationwide.  Her personal essays have been anthologized in Best of the Web, For Keeps, and the forthcoming He Said What?!  She lives in Wisconsin and will be teaching at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv for six weeks this fall. At present she is collaborating with her friend and VCFA colleague, Laurie Alberts, on a novel.   see www.abbyfrucht.net.