Melanie Rae Thon

Melanie Rae Thon (born 1957) is an American writer. Thon has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Whiting Foundation. She has taught at Emerson College, Syracuse University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Ohio State University, and the University of Utah. Born in Montana, Thon currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Thon is the author of four novels, Meteors in August, published in 1990; Iona Moon, published in 1993, Sweet Hearts, published in 2001, The Voice of the River, published in 2011, and four short story collections, Girls in the Grass, published in 1991, First, Body, published in 1997, In This Light, published in 2011, and Silence & Song, published in 2015.

Thon's short story "Letters in the Snow," is included in the The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006. The story was first published in the June 20, 2004 issue of One Story, a literary journal. "Letters in the Snow" is subtitled "for kind strangers and unborn children -- for the ones lost and most beloved." Her fiction has also been included in the anthology series Best American Short Stories (1995, 1996).

In 1996, Granta magazine included Thon on its list of the twenty Best Young American Novelists.

Works

Books

• • "Little White Sister," Originally Published in Ploughshares, Winter 1993-1994
  • "Xmas, Jamaica Plain," Originally Published in Granta 54: Best of Young American Novelists, Summer 1996

Stories

• "Catch You Later," Ploughshares, Fall 1987
• "The River Woman's Son," Ploughshares, Spring 1997
• "Letters in the Snow," One Story, Issue 40, June 2004

External links

• University of Utah Faculty Profile of Melanie Rae Thon
• "Translation", SmokeLong Quarterly, September 15, 2006
• "The Light of Stars, Yes" by Melanie Rae Thon in "Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts" (26.1)
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation