Virginia Pye has had short fiction published in numerous literary magazines, including The North American Review, Failbetter, The Baltimore Review, The Potomac Review, Prime Number, Redux and others. One of her stories is forthcoming in the book anthology: Twenty Years of Art and Understanding, and Virginia has been a Finalist in three Glimmer Train contests. She has received numerous fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and to ASAP, a summer colony on Mount Desert Island, Maine.

Virginia holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence where she studied with Joan Silber and Allan Gurganus. At Wesleyan, she was lucky enough to learn for several years from Annie Dillard. She has taught writing at New York University, The University of Pennsylvania, at various high schools, community centers and in her home. In Richmond, Virginia, she was long-time chair of James River Writers, a literary non-profit with 350 members. JRW hosts an annual writers conference—in 2011 with Karl Marlantes, John Casey and Robert Goolrick—monthly panels on the craft and business of writing, and programs to encourage young people to read and write.

Virginia is currently at work on a new novel set in the New York art world in the 1980s.

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