About
Chelsey Grasso’s fiction has been published in The Rumpus, Indiana Review, The Los Angeles Review, Harvard Review Online, The Florida Review, the minnesota review, Carve Magazine, Joyland Magazine, Hobart, and elsewhere.
Her short story manuscript was a semi-finalist for the 2021 Hudson Prize, and select fiction works were finalists for the 2019 Meyerson Prize for Fiction, 2019 Fugue Prose Contest, and the 2019 So to Speak Fiction Contest.
She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Conference, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Fiction Publications
"Walls”
So to Speak Journal
June 2023
"A City on Its Side”
Indiana Review
January 2021
"The Less-Thans”
The Florida Review
December 2020
"Fortune-Telling”
the minnesota review
November 2020
"Where the Women Go”
Joyland Magazine
July 2020
"We Are Not Lemons”
The Los Angeles Review
March 2020
"The Softest Part"
The Rumpus
July 2019
"Invisible Men Make Bad Company"
Harvard Review Online
June 2019
"Sour"
Hobart
March 2019
"Goose" (2019 Pushcart Prize Nomination)
Carve Magazine
January 2019
"Suds"
Mortar Magazine
December 2017
Awards & Nominations
Semi-Finalist
2021 Hudson Prize (Black Lawrence Press) for Fiction Manuscript
Finalist
2019 David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction
Finalist
2019 So to Speak Fiction Contest
Pushcart Prize Nomination
2019 Pushcart Prize
Finalist
2019 Fugue Prose Contest
Creative Writing Scholarship Awardee
2019 Mary Doyle Curran Scholarship
Fiction Fellowship Awardee
2019 Chautauqua Writer’s Festival
Finalist
2018 Faulkner Wisdom Competition
2nd Place Fiction Winner & Fellowship Awardee
2018 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Contest
Finalist
2018 Writers’ Room of Boston Fellowship
Interviews & Articles
"Fiction Writing: Tips from 4 Experts"
ReadBeach
June 2020
"15 Excellent Short Stories You Can Read For Free Right Now"
Nothing in the Rule Book
February 2019
"What We Talk About: Interview with Chelsey Grasso"
Carve Magazine
January 2019
Readings & Panels
"Life After the MFA" Panel
University of Massachusetts Boston
April 2024
Visiting Writer Reading
University of Massachusetts Boston
March 2023
Breakwater Reading Series
More Than Words Warehouse Bookstore
February 2022
Visiting Writer Reading
University of Massachusetts Boston (remote)
March 2021
MFA Thesis Readings
University of Massachusetts Boston (remote)
April 2020
Breakwater Reading Series
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
November 2019
Chautauqua Writer’s Festival Community Reading
Chautauqua Institution
June 2019
Write on the DOT Issue V Launch
The Blarney Stone
May 2019
Spring Slam
13 Forest Gallery
April 2019
Breakwater Reading Series
Cambridge Center for Adult Education
December 2018
Write on the DOT Open Mic
The Banshee
November 2018
Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Reading Series
The Summercamp Hotel
June 2018
Visiting Reader (Six American Authors Course)
UMass Boston
May 2018
Write on the DOT Issue IV Launch
The Blarney Stone
May 2018
Breakwater Reading Series
Brookline Booksmith
February 2018
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