Biography

Rae Meadows is the author of Mercy Train, Calling Out, which received the 2006 Utah Book Award for fiction, and No One Tells Everything, a Poets & Writers Notable Novel. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Awards and Citations:

  • Honorable Mention, Anne Powers Book-Length Fiction Prize, 2008
  • “Notable Novel” selection, Poets & Writers, 2008
  • First Prize, Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops Short Story Contest, 2008
  • Winner, Utah Book Award for Fiction, 2006
  • “Best Books of the Year” selection, The Chicago Tribune, 2006
  • One of five Poets & Writers “Debut Writers to Watch,” 2006
  • “Must Read” selection, Entertainment Weekly, 2006
  • Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, 2006
  • Book Sense Notable Book, 2006
  • First Prize, Authors in the Park Short Story Competition, 2000
  • Runner-up, The Mississippi Review Fiction Prize, 2000

Favorite Books:

  • Jesus’ Son, by Dennis Johnson
  • As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
  • The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
  • Unless, by Carol Shields
  • Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
  • Beloved, by Toni Morrison
  • Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson
  • To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
  • Last Night at the Lobster, by Stuart O’Nan
  • In the Lake of the Woods, by Tim O’Brien