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Lindsay Sproul
BornLindsay Anne Sproul
(1985-06-03)June 3, 1985
Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA
OccupationProfessor, writer, editor
Alma materFlorida State University
Genres

Lindsay Sproul (born June 3, 1985 in Marshfield, Massachusetts) is an American educator, editor and writer. She is the current editor-in-chief of the New Orleans Review[1] and an assistant professor of creative writing at Loyola University New Orleans, where she specializes in young adult fiction, queer literature and theory, gender studies and creative nonfiction.[2]

Her debut YA novel, We Were Promised Spotlights, was published in 2020.[3][4]

Education

Sproul received her B.A. from Beloit College, her M.F.A. from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Florida State University.[2]

Editing and publishing

Sproul has edited for the New Orleans Review since 2017, and became the magazine's editor-in-chief in late 2019.

Her short fiction has been published in Epoch,[5] Glimmer Train,[6] Witness,[7] Porchlight,[8] Massachusetts Review,[9] Beloit Fiction Journal,[10]and The Los Angeles Review.[11]

We Were Promised Spotlights, a queer coming-of-age young adult novel, was published on March 24, 2020. Sproul is currently writing her second YA novel, to be published in 2021.

Lindsay Sproul's website

References

  1. ^ About, New Orleans Review. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b Lindsay Sproul, College of Arts and Sciences, Loyola University. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  3. ^ Author page: Lindsay Sproul, Penguin Random House Publishing. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. ^ Review: "We Were Promised Spotlights," Kirkus Reviews, 21 December 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Corvis McClellan" by Lindsay Sproul. Epoch, vol. 64, no. 1, published 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  6. ^ Contributing Authors and Artists, Glimmer Train. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  7. ^ "Jack Armstrong" by Lindsay Sproul. Witness, vol. XXVIII, no. 2, Summer 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Horseshoes" by Lindsay Sproul. Porchlight: A Literary Magazine, issue 4, Spring 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  9. ^ "Playing France" by Lindsay Sproul. Massachusetts Review, vol. 53, issue 3. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  10. ^ "The Greener Grass" by Lindsay Sproul, Beloit Fiction Journal, vol. 22, Spring 2009. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  11. ^ "The Invisible Hand" by Lindsay Sproul, The Los Angeles Review, September 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2020.