Cammie McGovern

Cammie McGovern Title: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing Extension: Office: Mail code: WP Email: Homepage:

Biography
Cammie McGovern, adjunct assistant professor of writing, earned an MFA from University of Michigan and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her most recent novel, Eye Contact (Viking/Penguin, March 2007) was chosen by the New York City Library as one of the ten best adult books for young adults of 2006, and was also (briefly) a Boston Globe bestseller. She is also the author of The Art of Seeing (Scribner, 2002). Her short stories have appeared in Redbook, Seventeen, Glimmer Train, TriQuarterly, American Fiction, and others. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, London Sunday Times, Ladies Home Journal, Glamour and others. She has lived in Amherst for the last nine years, and is the mother of three boys, the eldest of whom is autistic, which she frequently writes about.