Maggie Ginsberg
If you weren’t able to join us for Ginsberg’s live event or are interested in watching it again, click below to watch the recording.
First novels are stereotypically autobiographical for a reason; while Ginsberg thought she was writing about made-up people in a made-up place, in the aftermath of finishing her first novel, she discovered how naive that viewpoint was, and why her blissful ignorance made for a better book. She will share how vulnerability forges connections between readers and writers, that it’s worth it to write the hard stuff, and that no writer or reader should feel as if their particular experience of the world isn’t interesting or valid.
STILL TRUE AWARDS
The honorable mention selection for the 2022 Edna Ferber Fiction Book Award
2023 Midwest Book Awards silver medalist for Literary/Contemporary/Historical fiction
2023 Women's Fiction Writers Association STAR Award finalist for Outstanding Debut
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MAGGIE GINSBERG is a senior editor at Madison Magazine and a long-time contributor to regional and national publications. Her nonfiction work has been honored by the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National City and Regional Magazine Association, and the Milwaukee Press Club. She turned to fiction for the first time with her debut literary novel, Still True, which was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in September 2022. Maggie was born in Minnesota and has lived in Wisconsin since 1985, and Still True is set in a fictional rural community much like the small towns in which she's always lived.
Learn more about Maggie Ginsberg at maggieginsberg.com.
