Maureen Aitken Author

Maureen Aitken is the recipient of the Nilsen Prize and has also won the Minnesota State Arts Board’s Artist Initiative Grant, the Loft Mentor Award, and Ireland’s Fish Short Story Prize. Stories in her collection have earned two Pushcart Prize nominations and have been published in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The Journal, Night Train, Puerto del Sol and the international anthology, The Bering Strait and Other Stories. She teaches writing at the University of Minnesota.