Belle Boggs is the author of the story collection “Mattaponi Queen,” which will be published in June by Graywolf Press.
The collection won the 2009 Bakeless Prize for Fiction, selected by Percival Everett.
Kirkus said that she “writes with subtlety, empathy and command, so that every page features small surprises: jolts of recognition, pungent dialogue, keen observations. Unfussy, understated and richly varied stories — a promising debut.”
Susan Straight added that “the interwoven stories remind me of Annie Proulx crossed with Ernest Gaines — the dry humor, the understatement, and the wonderful dialogue that sounds as if I’m hearing it while sitting on a folding chair in a yard.”
Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in the Paris Review, Glimmer Train and At Length. Her non-fiction has been published in the Oxford American.
Belle earned her MFA in fiction from the University of California at Irvine and grew up in King William County, Virginia. She lives in North Carolina.
Visit her online at belleboggs.wordpress.com.
