Shauna seliy biography

          Shauna Seliy is an American novelist....

          Shauna Seliy

          American novelist

          Shauna Seliy is an American novelist.

          Born in 1970 in a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Seliy graduated from Serra Catholic High School in McKeesport.

          Shauna Seliy is an American novelist.

        1. Shauna Seliy is the author of the novel When We Get There (Bloomsbury ), which was named a best book of the year by the Sunday Independent (South Africa).
        2. Shauna Seliy is an American novelist.
        3. Shauna Seliy is a writer who grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
        4. Shauna Seliy's work has appeared in The New Orleans Review, Meridian and Other Voices.

          5. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

          She has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. From 2003-2004, she was the Writer-in-Residence at St.

          Albans School in Washington, DC.

          Seliy is currently the artist in residence in the English Department at Northwestern University.[1]

          Works

          Seliy's most notable work is her novel When We Get There.

          Published on May 21, 2007, this book tells the story of thirteen year old Lucas, an only child living in the 1970s coal town of Banning, PA.[2] The youngest member of a large and boisterous Eastern European family, Lucas is taken care of by his grandmother, affectionately known as Slats, after his mother, Mirjana, m