Courtney Elizabeth Mauk’s work has appeared in The Literary Review, Forge Journal, PANK, Word Riot, Joyland, BrooklynTheBorough, and the anthology Gravity Fiction, which was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for independently published books.

Her short stories “Hungerford Bridge” and “Shadowland” were nominated for the 2011 Pushcart Prize.

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 at Eugene Lang College and College of Staten Island.

“Courtney Elizabeth Mauk's characters grab us and don't let go. Even as brother and sister Delphie and Andrea hold up their shattered mirrors reflecting one another, they draw readers through the looking glass of their relationship into a bewitching nocturnal New York, tense with danger and desire. Incendia is sexy and suspenseful, funny and wise. You won't want to put it down.”

-         Thorn Kief Hillsbery, author of War Boy and What We Do Is Secret