The story collection Lives of Mapmakers is Alicia L. Conroy’s first book and was a fiction finalist for the Minnesota Book Awards. She has received a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant and a Minnesota State Arts Board fellowship, in addition to an honorable mention in the 2005 Pushcart Prizes and other writing awards. Her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Ontario Review, Puerto Del Sol, Chattahoochee Review and other journals, and she publishes reviews and interviews. Conroy lived for thirteen years in the Boston area and later returned to her hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she now lives. She teaches at Normandale Community College.
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