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American fiction writer Maggie Shipstead was recently named the winner of the 2012 Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers, an annual award of £30,000 (approximately $48,000) given by the University of Wales to a writer under the age of thirty. Shipstead, twenty-eight, won the prize for her debut novel, Seating Arrangements (Knopf, 2012). A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and former

Maggie Shipstead, 37, is the author of Seating Arrangements, which won the Dylan Thomas Prize and LA Times Book Prize for First Fiction, and Astonish Me.She is the recipient of a fellowship from

Maggie Shipstead (born 1983) is an American novelist, short story author, essayist, and travel writer. The New York Times described it as a "smart and frothy debut novel,"[5] and it received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Dylan Thomas Prize.[6][7] Many of the short stories had been previously published in journals such as Tin House and Virginia Quarterly Review in the decade leading up to the publication of Great Circle.[16] While many of the ten stories were praised, some reviewers criticized the book for being inconsistent: while The New York Times praised the writing of "La Moretta" as a standout, it noted that other stories seemed "plainly unfinished."[17] "Mission Viejo's Maggie Shipstead Announces New Novel".