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Peyton Marshall

Peyton Marshall
Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of the Richard Yates Award for Short Fiction. Her first novel, Goodhouse, came out from FSG in 2014 and was a finalist for the International Association of Crime Writers’ 2014 Dashiell Hammett Prize. Peyton’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, A Public Space, and Best New American Voices. She was awarded an NEA Prose Writing Fellowship for 2022-23.


In Defense of Being a Slow Novel Writer

Peyton Marshall on Overcoming the Shame of Taking Time to Write and Revise Her Debut, “Goodhouse”
June 5, 2024  By Peyton Marshall
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