yannick murphy
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Yannick Murphy is the author of the novels, SIGNED, MATA HARI, HERE THEY COME, and THE SEA OF TREES. Her story collections include STORIES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE and IN A BEAR'S EYE (which is forthcoming in February). Her children's books include AHWOOOOOOOO! and BABY POLAR (which is forthcoming in 2008/2009). She is the recipient of various awards including a Whiting Writer's Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award, a Chesterfield Screenwriting award and her story IN A BEAR'S EYE was recently published in the 2007 O'Henry Prize Stories.

Little, Brown & Co. published SIGNED, MATA HARI in November 2007.

"[An] alluring novel, ... hypnotic [and as] softly poetic as it is insistent, [Signed, Mata Hari] it entices the reader from the first lines to give Mata Hari what she always craved: not the secrets that are the currency of a spy, but the rapt attention that is oxygen to a performer." -- Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly

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SIGNED, MATA HARI
A New York Time's Editor's Choice
Also available: "In a Bear's Eye" (Buy now on Amazon.com)

"....a marvel of storytelling... shimmers with indelible life."
— Elle Magazine.

"Delivers an emotional wallop..."
— Publisher's Weekly

"Here They Come" now available in paperback, published by Grove McSweeney's. (Buy now from Amazon.com)

Clarion Books just bought another children's book by Yannick Murphy titled BABY POLAR

Books

HERE THEY COME a novel
(McSweeney's Books) March '06.

AHWOOOOOOOO! a children's book
(Clarion Books) June '06.

THE SEA OF TREES a novel
(Houghton Mifflin 1997)

—"The Sea of Trees" was a New York Times most Notable Book 1997

—"The Sea of Trees" was included in "The Best Novels of the Nineties" by Linda Parent Lesher

STORIES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE stories
(Alfred A. Knopf 1987)

Recent Short Stories

"Pan, Pan, Pan"
Conjunctions 49, Fall 2007

"Aunt Germaine"
Vestal Review July 2007 #30
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"In A Bear's Eye"
McSweeney's Journal #18 December 2005
Included in the O'Henry Prize 2007 short story collection