Keywords
writing process, character building, Alyson Hagy
Document Type
Interview
Description
Alyson Hagy grew up on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She is a graduate of Williams College (’82) where she twice won the Benjamin Wainwright Prize for her fiction and completed an Honors thesis under the direction of Richard Ford. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan (’85) working with George Garrett, Alan Cheuse, and Janet Kauffman. While at Michigan, she was awarded a Hopwood Prize in Short Fiction and a Roy Cowden Fellowship. Early stories were published in Sewanee Review, Crescent Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. In 1986, Stuart Wright published her first collection of fiction, Madonna On Her Back.
Recommended Citation
Curtis, Ian
(2023)
"Interview with Alyson Hagy,"
Inscape: Vol. 43:
No.
2, Article 16.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol43/iss2/16