Courtney Elizabeth Mauk’s work has appeared in The Literary Review, Forge Journal, PANK, Word Riot, and the anthology Gravity Fiction.
Her short stories “Hungerford Bridge” and “Shadowland” have been nominated for the 2009 Pushcart.
She currently is at work on a novel, Incendia, about a young woman’s struggle to reconcile her relationship with her brother, and come to terms with her own dark desires, after he kills a family of four.
Courtney was born in 1981 in Rolla, Missouri, and grew up in Copley, Ohio. After graduating from Oberlin College, she spent a year writing art reviews in Washington, DC, before moving to New York City. In 2006 she received an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University.
She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at College of Staten Island.