Maud Newton is the author of the memoir Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (Random House, 2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. Newton, who first became known for her trail-blazing litblog, won the 2009 Narrative Prize. She lives in New York.
Photograph by Stephanie Keith.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Rapture Basement, a short story, in Narrative Backstage
- Narrative 10, an interview, in Fall 2015
- When the Flock Changed, a novel excerpt, in Spring 2009
- Conversations You Have at Twenty, a memoir, in Spring 2008