Christie Hodgen

Christie Hodgen is an American author known for writing A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw and Hello, I Must Be Going. She is a two-time winner of Associated Writing Programs Award for short fiction and received National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship in 2001. She is also serving as an assistant professor in the Department of English at University of Missouri-Kansas City.[1]

Early life and education

Hodgen was born to High school teacher and poet John Hodgen. During her time at Shrewsbury High School, Hodgen had her father as an English teacher.[2]

After completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia, She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.[1]

Work

Hodgen published her first book A jeweler's eye for flaw : stories in 2001, for which she received Association of Writers & Writing Programs award for short fiction and Pushcart Prize.[3] She also went on to receive National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.[4]

In 2007, She published her second work Hello, I must be going and it was featured in Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers series.[5]

Hodgen was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 2011.[5]

Hodgen published her third book "Elegies for the Brokenhearted" in 2011, a contemporary coming of age novel,that explores the lives of a family over the course of several decades.[6]

She received her second Association of Writers & Writing Programs award for her fourth novel Boy meets girlin 2021 that explores the lives of ordinary people and their relationship with American politics.[7]

Style

Hodgen's writing style is characterized with realism and fantasy, her writing is also marked by a tendency to over describe and populate her settings [8]

She is also known for her use of rhythm, repetition, and rhyme in novels, that reflects her background in poetry.[9]

Bibliography
  • A jeweler's eye for flaw : stories. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1558493742.
  • Hello, I must be going. New York: W.W. Norton. 2007. ISBN 978-0393330182.
  • Elegies for the brokenhearted : a novel (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 2010. ISBN 978-0393340235.
  • Boy meets girl (1st ed.). Kalamazoo, Michigan: New Issues Poetry & Prose. 2022. ISBN 978-1936970742.

See also

References
  1. "Christie Hodgen wins raves for 'Elegies for the Brokenhearted'". Deseret News. 2010-07-17. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  2. Duckett, Richard. "Award-winning writing is a family trait". Telegram & Gazette. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  3. Hale-Shelton, Debra (25 March 2007). "REVIEW: Curiosity of life, death motivate writer". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
  4. O'Nan, Stewart. "Ode To The Dead: In Remembrance Of Characters Past". National Public Radio.
  5. "A rare honor | UMKC Today Archives". info.umkc.edu.
  6. Rakoff, Joanna Smith (13 August 2010). "The Departed". The New York Times.
  7. "AWP: Award Series Winners". www.awpwriter.org.
  8. "A JEWELER'S EYE FOR FLAW | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus.
  9. Gan, Carolyn. "Elegies for the Brokenhearted, by Christie Hodgen". Fiction Writers Review.
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