Mary Robison is the author of four novels including Why Did I Ever (Counterpoint, 2001), which won the Los Angeles Times Book prize for Fiction and One D.O.A., One on the Way (Counterpoint, 2009), chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the “100 Most Notable Books of the Year” and by Oprah Winfrey for her Summer Reading list in 2009.

Mary Robison has received numerous awards and Fellowships including a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation.  She spent time as a screenwriter and script doctor for various studios and with independent filmmakers.  Robison’s stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including The Pushcart Prize and The O.Henry Prize Stories. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Esquire, GQ, and Harvard Magazine.  Robison has taught at Harvard University, Ohio University, Oberlin College, Bennington College, University of California Irvine, University of Houston and the University of Mississippi. She is currently a tenured professor at the University of Florida. 

Previous winners of the Rea Award for the Short Story are:

In addition to The Rea Award for the Short Story, the Dungannon Foundation also sponsors Rea Visiting Writers and Rea Visiting Lecturers at the University of Virginia, and Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story at Symphony Space in New York City.