Gina Troisi received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The University of Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program in 2009. She is the author of the memoir, The Angle of Flickering Light (Vine Leaves Press, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2022 Maine Literary Awards, and the winner for the 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Award. The memoir also received a Silver Medal for the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), and for the 2021 Reader’s Favorite Book Award, and has placed in several other contests.

Gina’s stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Fourth Genre, The Gettysburg Review, Fugue, Under the Sun, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, and elsewhere. Her shorter works have placed as finalists in several contests, including the 2022 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing (Fiction), the 2020 Iron Horse Literary Review Trifecta Award in Fiction, the 2018 New Letters Publication Award in Fiction, and others.

She teaches undergraduate writing at Southern New Hampshire University, mentors in the Masters of Fine Arts Creative & Professional Writing Program at Western Connecticut State University, and works as a bartender. She lives in southern Maine.

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