Robin Marie MacArthur

Author of Half Wild & Heart Spring Mountain

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About Robin

Robin Marie MacArthur lives on the hillside farm where she was born in southern Vermont. Her debut collection of short stories, HALF WILD, won the 2017 PEN New England award for fiction and was a finalist for both the New England Book Award and the Vermont Book Award.

Her novel, HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN, was an IndieNext Selection and a finalist for the New England Book Award. Both of her books have been translated into French and published by Albin Michel.

Her essays and stories have appeared in Orion Magazine, LitHub, Hunger Mountain, The Washington Post, Shenandoah, Alaska Quarterly, and on NPR.

Robin is also the editor of CONTEMPORARY VERMONT FICTION: AN ANTHOLOGY, and the recipient of two Creation Grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing program and has taught in many non-traditional settings throughout the US including the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and Orion Magazine. She is also the founder and director of WORD HOUSE, an emerging writing space in southern Vermont.

BOOKS

“Like all the best writing, this work feels half-wild, half-locked deep inside us. -Roxana Robinson”

HALF WILD: STORIES

**Winner of the 2016 PEN/NewEngland Award for fiction.**
**Finalist for the New England Book Award. Finalist of the Vermont Book Award. Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers selection. Independent Bookseller's Indie Next selection.**
“This heartbreakingly honest and authentic fiction will make you weep over, laugh at, and finally cheer for, mothers and daughters, sons and fathers, lovers and losers, and the human race in general. *Half Wild* is American fiction, and American literature, at its very best.”—Howard Frank Mosher
**“Feral, wise, deft, elegant, luminous, Robin MacArthur’s stories inhabit a reader with shimmering wonder.”** Rick Bass
**“Robin MacArthur is a striking new voice and *Half Wild* is a stormy marvel of a debut.”** -Laura van den Berg
**“MacArthur writes with the ear of a musician and a classic, pure command of the short story form, like a dispatch from Eudora Welty in the great north woods.”** --Megan Mayhew Bergman
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**"Poetic...A love song to the natural world, and a plea for its protection." STAR TRIBUNE (Minneapolis)**

“AMERICAN LITERATURE AT ITS VERY BEST -Howard Frank Mosher”

MANUSCRIPT CONSULTATIOns, mentoring & editing

For the past ten years I have been offering private manuscript consultations, editing and mentoring. I love to help writers with novels, short stories, memoirs and essays, at all stages of the process. I offer several services:

Manuscript Consultations: Do you have a full-length manuscript that is ready for another set of eyes? This could be a novel, a collection of short stories, a memoir, a collection of essays, a poetry manuscript or a hybrid creation. A consultation includes an in-depth reading of your manuscript (up to 350 pages), a multi-page letter discussing global issues like plot, pacing and character development, as well as sentence-level craft choices; 5-10 pages of meticulous line-editing, and a 30-60 minute phone call, Zoom session, or in-person meeting to discuss the work.

Monthly Coaching Services: Beginning a new project and looking for ongoing support? Launching into the revision process? Monthly coaching offers continuing conversation, brainstorming, goal-setting, reading suggestions, guidance, and critique of new or revised work (40 pages a month), as well as --when the time is right--advice about finding an agent, submitting to literary journals or contests, or self-publishing and promotion.

Hourly Editing: Want someone to read over a short story, a clutch of poems, an essay, an application or a query letter? Want someone to sit down and talk about your writing process or writing goals and help you create the steps for how to achieve those goals? Want someone to help create systems of accountability, or moral support, or help solve some burning literary dilemma? I got you.

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