Bio
Maria Mutch is the author of Know the Night, a memoir published by Knopf Canada and Simon & Schuster, the story collection When We Were Birds (Simon & Schuster Canada), and the novel Molly Falls to Earth (Simon & Schuster Canada).
Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Threepenny Review, Literary Hub, Poets & Writers, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Normal School, Guernica, Guernica's 2014 print anthology, SmokeLong, Juked, Necessary Fiction, Fiction Writers Review, Southeast Review, Ocean State Review, Bayou Magazine, Literary Mama, The Drum, The Malahat Review, Fiddlehead and Grain. A short story, "Hot Hot Day," published by The Malahat Review (issue #114), was a Canadian National Magazine Award Finalist.
Born and raised in Canada, she has a degree in visual art from York University in Toronto.
Know the Night, her debut book, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards 2014 and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, as well as being chosen for Oprah.com’s “Memoirs Too Powerful to Put Down,” The Globe & Mail's Top 100, MacLean's Magazine's Best Reads, and Late Night Library's Literary Voices Program 2014-2015.
She is a GrubStreet writing consultant, and a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and two sons.