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- Ethel Rohan
- Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Ethel Rohan now lives in San Francisco. She received her MFA in fiction from Mills College, Oakland. She has placed over one hundred short and short short fictions with such magazines as Wigleaf; Hobart; Monkeybicycle; Word Riot; Identity Theory; Storyglossia; Necessary Fiction; Potomac Review; PANK 4; Keyhole 9; and Los Angeles Review 6.
Awards And Recognitions
- Ardella Mills Prize, First Place, Fiction, 2001
- Ardella Mills Prize, Second Place, Non-Fiction, 2002
- BURST nominated "Circling" for Dzanc Best of the Web 2010 Anthology
- Honorable Mention, The Writer's Digest Short Story Competition, 2001
- Longlist, Davy Bryne's International Writing Contest, 2009
- Longlist, Fish Publishing One Page Story Prize, 2009
- Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize, First Place, Young Adult Fiction, 2002
- May Story of the Month, Bartleby Snopes Magazine, 2009
- Mills College Academic Honors List, 1998-2004
- Mills College Alumni Graduate Merit Scholarship, 2002-2004
- Mills College Dean's Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, 1998-2002
- PANK First Annual Chapbook Contest, Runner-Up, 2009
- Residency, Writer's Colony Dairy Hollow, Arkansas, 2003
- Winner, Co-Author Short Story Competition, The Irish Times, 1998
Works Published (click to read)
- 50-to-1, "Shadowboxing"
- Abandoned Towers Magazine, "So Not Tina Fey"
- All Things Girl Magazine, "Lost"
- Anemone Sidecar, "Necessary"
- Bartleby Snopes Magazine, "A Family Outing"
- Bartleby Snopes Magazine, "A Family Outing," (PDF)
- Boston Literary Magazine, "Safe Surrender Site"
- Bound Off: Literary Audio Magazine, "Cracking Open"
- BURST, "Circling"
- Calliope Magazine, "Stones," forthcoming
- Camroc Press Review, "Absent"
- Camroc Press Review, "The Top Of The Mountain"
- Cantaraville Magazine, "Law of Attraction," Issue 7
- Clockwise Cat Magazine, "The Almost Cat," Issue 15
- DecomP Magazine, "The Places We Go," forthcoming
- DecomP Magazine, "Thin As Skin," Text and MP3
- DOGZPLOT, "Do I Really Love You?"
- DOGZPLOT, "Leaves"
- DWW Electric Acorn, "The Auld Triangle," Issue 16
- elimae, "Blinding"
- Emprise Review, "Crystal Clear," Volume 11
- Everyday Genius, "Rights of Passage"
- Everyday Genius, "The Fat Lady Sings"
- Fissure Magazine, "Fracture Tastes Like Knives," Issue 6
- Flash Fire 500, "Word Gatherer"
- Foundling Review, "A Painful Procedure"
- Foundling Review, "Tracks"
- Ghoti Magazine, "The Old Sod," Issue 18
- Gloom Cupboard, "Life By Any Other Name," Issue 80
- Grey Sparrow Journal, "Free," Issue 1
- Halfway Down The Stairs, "More Than Gone," forthcoming
- Hobart, "How to Kill," forthcoming
- Identity Theory, "A Tangled Web"
- JMWW, "Five Micros," forthcoming
- Journal of Truth and Consquence, "Shedding Skins"
- Keyhole Digest, "Off The Bloom"
- Keyhole Magazine Issue 9, "Circling The Drain"
- Keyhole Magazine Issue 9, "Cut Through The Bone"
- Keyhole Magazine Issue 9, "Out of Reach"
- Keyhole Magazine Issue 9, "This Side of Angels"
- Keyhole Magazine, "Next To The Gutter"
- kill author, "Senseless Acts," Issue One
- LiteralMinded Magazine, "What Stays"
- LITnIMAGE Magazine, "Zero To Sixty"
- Locust Magazine, "In Need Of Repair," Issue 8, Vol. 2
- Los Angeles Review, "Under The Big Top,' Issue 6
- Mad Swirl Magazine, "Say"
- Mannequin Envy, "Hanging On The Telephone"
- Metazen, "No One Remembers Weak Women ..."
- Miranda Literary Magazine, "Skirting The Edge," Winter, 2008
- Mirror Magazine, "Strange Bedfellows"
- Monkeybicycle, "No Reason"
- Monkeybicycle, "Under Water"
- Moon Drenched Fables, "Ever After," June, 2009
- mud luscious, "The Final Feast," Issue 8
- Nanoism, "A Friend's Dying"
- Necessary Fiction, "Endangered," forthcoming
- Necessary Fiction, "Rocket Into A Pocket"
- OCHO # 25, "Keys"
- PANK, "Air"
- PANK, "Babies On The Shore"
- PANK, "Babies On The Shore," Issue 4, 2010
- PicFic, "Waves"
- Prick Of The Spindle, "Letdown," Vol. 2.4
- Red Peter, "Murdering Our Darlings"
- Ruthless Peoples Magazine, "The Finish Line," Issue 2
- Shelf Life Magazine, "Chasing," forthcoming
- Shoots And Vines, "What She Said She'd Do"
- Six Sentences, "What No One Told Me"
- Southpaw Journal, "Hungry," Issue 2
- Spork Journal, "The Dog Went To The Country Is A Euphemism"
- Staccato Fiction, "Vitals"
- Storyglossia, "Snatches," Issue 33
- SUB-LIT, "A Fan Letter," Vol. 2. Number 3
- The Battered Suitcase, "Someday"
- The Big Jewel, "What I'm Thinking During My First Bikram Yoga Class"
- The Dirty Napkin, "Fiery Objects," Vol. 2.2
- The Houston Literary Review, "Unsaid"
- The Legendary, "Partings," Issue 2
- The Linnet's Wings, "1970"
- The Medulla Review, "The Dance," Issue 1
- The Northville Review, "An Open Letter"
- The Northville Review, "There Are Those Who Live In Utopian Societies And Then There Are The Rest of Us," forthcoming
- The Oddville Press, "Tainted," Vol. 1, Issue IV
- The Ranfurly Review, "Cheap Amusements," forthcoming, Issue 9
- The Shine Journal, "Haunted"
- Thirst For Fire, "Like No One's Watching"
- Toasted Cheese, "Scraps," 9:4
- Tuesday Shorts, "Those Nights"
- Up The Staircase, "Fe Fi Fo Fum"
- Why Vandalism?, "Robbed," forthcoming, Issue 2
- Wigleaf, "Gold"
- Wigleaf, "Postcard"
- Wilderness House Literary Review, "Parched," forthcoming
- Word Riot, "Iron For The Soul"
- Writers' Bloc (Rutgers), "Killed," Issue 5
- Writers' Bloc, "Bear In The House"
- Wrong Tree Review, "The Three Little Pigs," forthcoming
- WTF PWM, "Happily Ever After"
Other Works Published
- VIPs on VSF, "The Tremendous In The Tiny," September, 2009
- Dublin Writer’s Workshop: Bloomsday Centenary Special Edition, “Rosie,” 2004
- Flashfiction.net, "Ethel Rohan On Getting Genuine," August 31, 2009
- Foundling Review, Third Eye Commentary, Issue 4, August, 2009
- PANK, "Ethel Rohan on Writing, Motherhood, and Wrestling Bears," September, 2009
- PANK, "This Modern Writer"
- The Irish Herald, various articles and reviews, 1996-2008
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Okay, goodbye, but please come back.
I like the way your mind works, Ethel. Nice one.
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Thanks, Kat! I just wish I could turn my mind off more often. Yet another restless night. Thanks for reading, and stopping by.
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