About Marilyn Abildskov

Marilyn Abildskov is the author of The Men in My Country. She is the recipient of a 2024 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and a Los Angeles Review Short Fiction Award. She has also been awarded residencies from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Writing Residency, and Ragdale, as well as honors from the Utah Arts Council. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Mississippi Review, The Sewanee Review, Story, The Gettysburg Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, The Best American Essays, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she teaches at Saint Mary's College of California in the Department of Creative Writing and the MFA Program in Creative Writing. She also teaches regularly at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.