Maggie Shen King is the author of An Excess Male, which will be published by Harper Voyager in September 2017. Her short stories have appeared in Ecotone, ZYZZYVA, Asimovs Science Fiction, and Fourteen Hills. Her manuscript Fortune's Fools, won Second Prize in Amazon's 2012 Breakthrough Novel Award.
Maggie took one creative writing class when she was a freshmen at Harvard, but did not begin writing in earnest until 2004 when her youngest child started middle school. She has studied with Nancy Packer, Eric Puchner, Thomas McNeely, and Otis Haschemeyer at Stanford Universitys Continuing Studies Program. She shows her work regularly to two writing groups, one of which was formed at the conclusion of her first course at Stanford.
Maggie grew up in Taiwan and attended both Chinese and American schools before moving to Seattle at age sixteen. When she is not writing, she can usually be found hacking her way around a golf course. She adores roses and is always on the lookout for shade-tolerant varieties that can thrive in the odd corners of her garden. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Maggie took one creative writing class when she was a freshmen at Harvard, but did not begin writing in earnest until 2004 when her youngest child started middle school. She has studied with Nancy Packer, Eric Puchner, Thomas McNeely, and Otis Haschemeyer at Stanford Universitys Continuing Studies Program. She shows her work regularly to two writing groups, one of which was formed at the conclusion of her first course at Stanford.
Maggie grew up in Taiwan and attended both Chinese and American schools before moving to Seattle at age sixteen. When she is not writing, she can usually be found hacking her way around a golf course. She adores roses and is always on the lookout for shade-tolerant varieties that can thrive in the odd corners of her garden. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Maggie Shen King recommends
Copy Boy (2020)
(Jane Benjamin, book 1)
Shelley Blanton-Stroud
"Full of adventure, chutzpah, historical detail, and, most of all, heart, Copy Boy is a thrilling, Depression-era coming-of-age story well suited to our times."
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