Virginia Pye
Publications
About Virginia
Virginia Pye is the author of four books of fiction, most recently the novel, The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann. Her short story collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, won the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction, and one of its stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her two post-colonial novels about Americans in historic China, River of Dust and Dreams of the Red Phoenix, have also received literary awards. Virginia’s essays have appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, Publisher’s Weekly, Huffington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Writer’s Digest, as well as in numerous literary magazines.
A graduate of Wesleyan University, she holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and has taught writing at New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and, most recently, at GrubStreet in Boston. She is Co-Fiction Editor for Pangyrus, a literary journal based in Cambridge, and a board member of the Women’s National Book Association, Boston Chapter.