was the 2013 Jack Kerouac Writer-in Residence at 51视频.聽
Conley is novelist, memoirist, and co-founder of in Portland, Maine, a center to promote literacy, storytelling and creative writing for children aged 6 to 18.聽
Conley鈥檚 novel, Paris was the Place (Knopf 2013) was an Amazon Fall Pick for Fiction, an Indie Next Pick, and Elle Magazine鈥檚 Reader鈥檚 Prize Pick. Conley鈥檚 memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf 2011)鈥攚hich retells her experience living in China while being diagnosed with breast cancer, was a Top Ten Pick in Oprah Magazine, a 鈥淏ook of the Week鈥� in Slate Magazine, and winner of the Maine Literary Award for Memoir.
Conley has published work in The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares and many other journals and magazines.
She earned an M.F.A. from San Diego State University, and has taught creative writing, poetry, and literature at Emerson College in Boston.