Maria Sabaye Moghaddam

Maria has published three books of nonfiction and over a hundred essays, interviews, articles, and stories in print and online media. Her short story collection, “My First Friend” was a semi-finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, and the title story published in Scoundrel Time, won the Editors’ Choice Award and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2017. Maria’s novella, “The Secret of Names” was longlisted for the 2020 Disquiet Literary Prize.  Maria has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa in English literature and served on various art juries. She attended Banff Centre Writing Studio (2016), Banff Residency (2015), residency at Al Purdy A-Frame (Picton, 2018) and Tyrone-Guthrie in Ireland (2018).  She recently won the PEN Canada Scholarship for Writers in Exile and the Wallace Stegner Grant for the arts. 

For more on Maria, please visit her website.