Noreen Graf

Noreen Graf is a writer, artist, and longtime university professor now based in Washington State. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, MER Literary, Ocotillo Review, Dirty Chai, Oyedrum, and Political Irony, with forthcoming work in Reckon Review and BULL. She is the winner of the Sixfold Fiction Prize, runner-up for the Chester B. Himes Short Fiction Prize, a finalist for the Solstice Literary Fiction Contest and the James Jones First Book Contest, and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

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In addition to writing, Graf creates mixed-media and painted works exploring memory, family, and layered portraiture. She is currently working on two novels, Waking the Dogs and Second Spirit.