Martha Grace Duncan
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Martha Grace Duncan's memoirs and personal essays have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Five Points, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Notre Dame Magazine, Appalachian Review, and other journals. Her creative nonfiction has also been featured in Home: An Anthology of Minnesota Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry, published by Flexible Press.
An early version of her Harvard essay, "What Not to Do When Your Roommate is Murdered in Italy: Amanda Knox, her 'Strange' Behavior, and the Italian Legal System", won the 2014 Judith Siegel Pearson Award for "best writing about women in any genre." Two of her essays won First Prize in the Gail Wilson Kenna Creative Nonfiction Division of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. Five have been chosen as "Notables" in Best American Essays.
She earned a PhD from Columbia University and a law degree from Yale. Currently, she is a Professor of Law and a Professor of Psychoanalysis at Emory University in Atlanta. In her role as a criminal law scholar, she published a book, Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons (NYU Press), that received a full-page review in the New York Times Book Review. Her writing has garnered invitations to speak at the Max Planck Institute, the University of Turin, and Harvard Law School.
She is long at work on a book-length memoir, Death of a Dreamer, about her quest to unravel the enigma of her father's life. When not working, she devotes herself to her family, music (piano and singing), and foreign languages.
Website: https://www.marthagraceduncan.com
