{{short description|American fiction writer (born 1972)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2013}} {{Infobox writer | image = <!-- Only freely-licensed images may be used to depict living people. See WP:NONFREE. --> | bgcolour = | name = Maile Meloy | imagesize = 143px | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|2|15|mf=y}} | birth_place = Helena, Montana, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | genre = Fiction | education = Harvard College<br>University of California, Irvine (MFA) | relatives = Colin Meloy <small> (brother) </small> <br/>Carson Ellis <small> (sister-in-law) </small> <br/>Ellen Meloy <small> (aunt) </small> | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) }}
'''Maile Meloy''' (born January 1, 1972) is an American novelist and short story writer.
==Early life and education== Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Meloy received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.
==Career== Meloy won ''The Paris Review''{{'s}} Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story "Aqua Boulevard" in 2001;<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/158 | title = THE PARIS REVIEW No. 158, Spring-Summer 2001 | access-date = June 9, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045748/http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/158 | archive-date = September 27, 2007 | url-status = dead }}</ref> the PEN/Malamud Award for her first collection of short stories, ''Half in Love'', in 2003;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penfaulkner.org/penmalamud.htm |title=PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090906095238/http://www.penfaulkner.org/penmalamud.htm |archivedate=September 6, 2009 }}</ref> and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.gf.org/04fellow.html |title = 2004 Guggenheim Fellows |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070609133956/http://www.gf.org/04fellow.html |archivedate = June 9, 2007 |df = mdy-all }}</ref> In 2007, Granta included her on its list of the 21 "Best Young American Novelists."<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Maile-Meloy|title = Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2|access-date = June 9, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070621125504/http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Maile-Meloy|archive-date = June 21, 2007|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref name=mmeloy2>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/books/review/Sittenfeld-t.html?ref=mailemeloy|title=Irrational Behavior|newspaper=New York Times|date=July 8, 2009|last=Sittenfeld|first=Curtis|accessdate=July 28, 2011}}</ref>
Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'',<ref name=mmeloy>{{cite journal|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/12/22/031222fa_fact2|title=Hot or Cold|journal=New Yorker|date=December 22, 2003|last=Meloy|first=Maile|accessdate=July 28, 2011}}</ref> and she is a frequent contributor to ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Meloy-t.html?ex=1336968000&en=c508cfb8308735d2&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink |title = Domestic Disturbances: A review of Helen Simpson's "In the Driver's Seat" | newspaper = The New York Times | date = May 20, 2007 | first=Maile | last=Meloy | accessdate=May 12, 2010}}</ref>
Describing how she wrote ''Half in Love'', Meloy is quoted on the Ploughshares web site as saying, "What I wound up with was a book that was set in different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some of the hardest to write, because it's the place I’m closest to—and partly in other places, in London and Paris and Greece. So it had very little temporal or geographical unity, but the characters are all caught between one thing and another, half in love with something or someone, when life deals them something they didn’t expect."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7797|title=Zacharis Award Winner Maile Meloy|date=Winter 2003–2004|publisher=Ploughshares|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609043433/http://pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7797|archivedate=June 9, 2007}}</ref>
In 2015, two stories from Meloy's collection ''Half in Love'' ("Tome" and "Native Sandstone") and one story from ''Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It'' ("Travis, B.") were adapted into the movie ''Certain Women'' directed by Kelly Reichardt. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016 and was released by IFC Films in October 2016. A story from the book was also featured on ''This American Life''{{'s}} 2016 Christmas episode, read aloud by Meloy.
Meloy served on the writing staff of the Netflix series ''The Society'', which premiered in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://time.com/5581433/society-netflix-kathryn-newton-chris-keyser/|title = 'The Society' is the Netflix Sensation You Never Saw Coming| date=May 6, 2019 }}</ref>
==Personal life== Meloy is the older sister of Colin Meloy, frontman of The Decemberists, solo artist, and author of The Wildwood Chronicles novels. Their aunt, the late Ellen Meloy, was also an author.
She lives in Los Angeles.
== Works == * ''Half in Love: Stories'' (2002) * ''Liars and Saints'' (2003) * ''A Family Daughter'' (2006) * ''Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories'' (2009) * ''The Apothecary Series'' ** ''The Apothecary'' (2011) ** ''The Apprentices'' (2013) ** ''The After-Room'' (2015) * '' Do not become alarmed ''(2017)
=== Short fiction === * {{cite magazine | title=Demeter | magazine=The New Yorker | date=November 19, 2012 | url= http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/11/19/demeter | volume=88 | issue=36 }} * {{cite magazine | title=The Proxy Marriage | magazine=The New Yorker | date=May 21, 2012 | url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/21/the-proxy-marriage }} * {{cite magazine | title=Travis, B. | magazine=The New Yorker | date=October 20, 2002 | url= https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/10/28/travis-b | volume=78 | issue=4003}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links==
===Archival collections=== *[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0t1nf148 Guide to the Maile Meloy Collection MS.L.019.] Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
===Other=== *{{Official website|http://mailemeloy.com}} *{{IMDb name}} *[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?userid=gT4kLFGC9g&cid=1077319#interview Interview] *[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/09/books/09masl.html?ex=1181707200&en=87589cfadf43e4b7&ei=5070 NYT review of "A Family Daughter"]
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