Marguerite Sheffer

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Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press) writer and teacher in New Orleans stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others

Picture of Taylor branded swag bags with books nd seeds inside
Event poster (info in post) and the cover of The Man in the Banana Trees
Poster for the Words and Music Festival 2025 pane (see info in post) showing photos of the 4 authors: Marguerite Sheffer, Danny Cherry Jr, Bryan Camp, and Desiree S. Evans.
Poster for Story Hour: Livestream Speculative Readings, Hosted by Daniel Marcus and Laura Blackwell: Sept 10, 7:00 PM PDT. Shows pictures of the 2 authors: Jennifer Brozek and Marguerite Sheffer. Link to http://www.storyhour2020.com
Cover of the Gambit's 40-under-40 issue
Image schedule for marguerite sheffer at Readercon (all available on the conf site too!)
image for class "Drafting as Play / Revisions as Experimentation" with Write or Die - August 20 + 27. More details at Write or Die
screenshot of class description (available at link in post) for GENRE BOOTCAMP at the Porch
Marguerite Sheffer's Readercon Schedule (details available here https://schedule.readercon.org/people/305b1bb9-805b-4148-afac-19273768210c)
Graphic for Strong Women Strange Worlds First Friday Quickread of Sci Fi, Fantasy & Horror on August 1, 12 noon EDT(free on zoom). Preregister at https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com
Poster for FANTASY WRITING WORKSHOP: "A Page to Stage Event, led by Adrian Van Young" - Tuesday July 1, 6-8 pm, BK Historic House The poster shows a white unicorn standing in a field of flowers.
Marguerite Sheffer's Readercon 2025 Schedule: Friday 7/18 Horror and the Weird: 3pm, Salon G/H Meet the Pros(e): 10:15pm, Salon F Saturday 7/19 Kaffeeklatsch: 10am, Suite 830 What Works in Flash Fiction: 12 pm, Salon G/H Sunday, 7/20 Fictions of Climate Apocalypse: 10 am, Salon F The Body (of Work) Keeps the Score: Writing as Therapy (2): 11 am, Salon 1/J And the cover of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (short story collection) by Marguerite Sheffer
Book event banner featuring "An Evening with Erica Stern in Conversation with Marguerite Sheffer" at Blue Cypress Books, Weds June 18 6:30 pm New Orleans - and the book cover of her debut memoir FRONTIER
Book covers for MENDING BODIES by Hon Lai-Chu (translated by Jacqueline Leung), HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS by Anita Felicelli, and THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by Marguerite Sheffer
Writers Mary Annaise Heglar and Danny Cherry Jr in animated conversation
Poster for the session described in the post: "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" at the Bay Area Book Fest, Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Sunday June 1 at 12:30 pm
Graphic showing the cover of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by Marguerite Sheffer surrounded by characters and images reflecting the short stories within the collection, and announcing the collection as a Finalist for a 2025 PEN AMERICA Literary Award.
GiveNOLA graphic showing $1533 of $3000 goal, via 23 donations.
circle graph showing $1287 raised (of $3000 goal) via 18 donations for GiveNOLA Day 2025
donation graph from GiveNOLA Day showing $236 from 5 donations (of $3000 goal)
Screenshot of PEN finalist announcement, including covers of Softie, I'll Give You a Reason, Japa, The Man in the Banana Trees, and Sad Grownups
Cover of The Man in the Banana Trees and text from post
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Flyer for AWP 2025 panel: Los Angeles AWP Panel: Unapologetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction with Anjali Sachdeva, Cleo Qian, Chelsea Sutton & Lena Valencia (Friday, 12:10 p.m. – 1:25 p.m. PT, Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two)
Poster advertising the Author Night: Local Women Authors. "Three New Orleans authors read fiction selections from their debut books. Marguerite Sheffer: The Man in the Banana Trees. Annell Lopez: I'll Give You a Reason. Vanessa Saunders : The Flat Woman. Weds, March 19 5:30, Latter Library 5120 St. Charles Ave.
event poster showing three author photos: Annell Lopez, Vanessa Saunders, and Marguerite Sheffer. Event details: Author Night: Local Women Authors, Weds March 19, 5:30 pm at Norman Mayer Library (New Orleans), 3001 Gentilly Blvd.
The book cover of Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad. It shows the shadow of a woman holding a flower (in a black and white photo of what seems to be a wall)
Cover of The Massachusetts Review, featuring an illustration of a fire in a woods with two figures and a goat around it.
Covers of books on a bookfair table: The Flat Woman, Pike Boys, The Man in the Banana Trees, and The Fetishist
poster for the New Orleans Book Fair along with book covers for THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES, THE FETISHIST, THE FLAT WOMAN, I'LL GIVE YOU A REASON, and THE PIKE BOYS
A pull quote from an interview with Marguerite Sheffer (in Write or Die Magazine): "The 'Aha!' is that you don't need a book deal for your writing life to be real or worthwhile. If I had succumbed to those doubts, the book never would've existed."
Author photos of Marguerite Sheffer and Julia Fine, alongside the cover of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES
The book cover of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES by Marguerite Sheffer: pink lighting, a cracked snow globe, a lobster, a yellow ribbon, and a banana blossom in a eerie still-life.
Image of four writers and event info (see post)
The cover of THE SAFEKEEP on a table next to a breakfast sandwich