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Carolyn Ferrell
Born	1962 (age 63–64) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Short story writer novelist
Education	Sarah Lawrence College City College of New York (MA)
Notable awards	John C. Zacharis First Book Award (1997) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (1997)
Spouse	Linwood Lewis

Carolyn Ferrell (born 1962, Brooklyn, New York) is an American short story writer and novelist.

Life

Ferrell graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and City College of New York with an MA. She has lived, worked, and studied in West Berlin, Manhattan, and the South Bronx. She is married to and has children with psychology professor Linwood Lewis.

Her work has appeared in The Literary Review, Callaloo, Fiction, and Sojourner: The Women's Forum.

She teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

Awards

Year	Title	Award	Category	Result	Ref
1994	Proper Library	The Best American Short Stories	—	In
1997	Don't Erase Me: Stories	John C. Zacharis First Book Award	—	Won
		Los Angeles Times Book Prize	Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction	Won
		Quality Paperback Book Prize	—	Won
2020	Something Street	The Best American Short Stories
2022	Dear Miss Metropolitan	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction	—	Shortlisted
		PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel	—	Shortlisted

Works

• —— (1997). Don't Erase Me: Stories. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780395713273.
• —— (2021). Dear Miss Metropolitan. Holt. ISBN 9781250793614.

Anthologies

• Susan Richards Shreve, ed. (2003). "A Child's Garden of Verse". Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-618-37902-6.
• John Updike; Katrina Kenison, eds. (2000). "Proper Library". The best American short stories of the century. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-395-84367-3.
• Elizabeth Merrick, ed. (2006). This is not chick lit: original stories by America's best women writers. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8129-7567-3.
• Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, ed. (2003). "Wonderful Teen". Shaking the tree: a collection of new fiction and memoir by Black women. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-05067-7.

Ploughshares

• "Proper Library", Ploughshares, Spring 1993
• "Tiger Frame Glasses", Ploughshares, Spring 1997