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Courtney Maum Biography

Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Costalegre (a GOOP book club pick and one of Glamour Magazine's top books of the decade), I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and Touch (a New York Times Editor's Choice and NPR Best Book of the Year selection), the Zibby Award-winning guidebook Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book, and the memoir, The Year of the Horses. A nominee for the Joyce Carol Oates prize, Courtney's short fiction and essays about creativity have been widely published in outlets such as the New York Times and Interview Magazine, her short story "This is Not Your Fault" was turned into an Audible original, and with her filmmaker husband, she has co-written films that have debuted at Sundance and won awards at Cannes. The executive director of the nonprofit learning collaborative, The Cabins, Courtney currently works as a writing coach and hosts the "Beyond the Writing of Fiction" conversation series through Edith Wharton's storied home, The Mount.

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