Marcy Dermansky is the author of the novels “Bad Marie” and “Twins.”
Frederick Barthelme said that reading “Bad Marie” is “like spending a rainy afternoon in a smaller, older movie theater watching a charming French movie with a woman (or a man) you’ve just met on the street and already like far too much. It’s sinful in all the right ways, delicate, seditious, and deliciously evil.” Added Antonya Nelson: “A naughty pleasure, a philosophical romp, heady hedonism: what could be better?”
The New York Times called “Twins” a “brainy, emotionally sophisticated bildungsroman-for-two.”
Her short stories have been published in McSweeney’s, Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review and Indiana Review, among other publications.
A former MacDowell fellow, Marcy is the winner of the Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and Story Magazine’s Carson McCullers short story prize.
Marcy serves as a board member of the online literary community Fictionaut and is a film critic for About.com.
She lives in Astoria, N.Y., with her husband, writer Jürgen Fauth, and her daughter Nina.
Visit her online at www.marcydermansky.com.
