Maureen Brady

Maureen Brady is the author of the novels Ginger's Fire , Folly, and Give Me Your Good Ear, the short stories, The Question She Put to Herself, and three books of nonfiction. Recent short stories "Billy's Mark" appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review; "Five 'n Dime" in the anthology, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta; and "Joy Suit," in Sinister Wisdom (nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize). Other work has appeared in Cabbage and Bones: Irish American Women's Fiction, Mom, In the Family and Intersections: An Anthology of Banff Writers, as well as many other anthologies and literary journals. She teaches creative writing at New York University, The New York Writers Workshop at The Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, The Peripatetic Writing Workshops in Guatemala and Anna Maria Island, Florida, and Il Chiostro in Italy. She currently serves as Board President of The Money for Women:Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and was a co-founder of Spinsters Ink and The New York Writers Workshop. She lives in New York City and the Catskills and is currently at work on a novel, Getaway.

Daybreak: Meditations for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse, which has sold over 45000 copies to date, was released May, 2013 by Hazelden as an ebook.

In addition to teaching a fiction tutorial course at NYU, Maureen offers inspiring individual editing and mentoring services to writers in various stages of development. Working with both fiction and nonfiction, she takes writers to the next step, with sensitive but rigorous critique, and publishing advice when the manuscript is ready.

"Maureen Brady provides an environment that is equal parts nurturing and challenging. Her attention to detail, five-star copy editing, and genuine enthusiasm for the written word have me coming back to her workshops year after year. Without her involvement, I doubt I would be awaiting publication in 2012!"
Janet Goss, Perfect on Paper, New American Library, 2012


Other writers she has worked with who have gone on to successful publication include:

Helen Wan, The Firm Outing, St. Martin's Press, Summer, 2013

Debotri Dhar, Postcards from Oxford: Stories of Woman and Travel, Roman Books, 2013

Jonathan Freiberger, "Pinksy Gets It Right," winner of Glimmertrain Emerging Writers Contest, Winter, 2012

Janet Goss, Perfect on Paper, New American Library, 2012

Susan Breen, The Writing Class, Plume, Spring, 2008.

Aaron Hamburger, Faith For Beginners, Random House, Fall, 2005, winner of The Prix Rome, 2005, for his short story collection, The View From Stalin's Head

Marion Cuba, Shanghai Legacy, Celadon Books, Spring 2006

Michael Gray, winner of 2004 Alligator Juniper Fiction Prize for short story

Louise Farmer Smith, winner of 2006 Glimmertrain Award for Emerging Writers for short story written at Tuscany workshop

Danielle Ofri, Singular Identities:Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue, Beacon Press

Caroline Hwang, In Full Bloom

Laura Kaplan, The Story of Jane

Paula Martinac, Out Of Time

"Maureen knows exactly what to say to tweak a weak narrative. Her comments honed in on the problem I was having with structure and improved not only my fiction but my confidence as well!"
Laurie Silver

For further information, contact Maureen at her email: meb4444@​gmail.com