Samar Farah Fitzgerald's fiction has appeared in places such as The O. Henry Prize Stories, New England Review, The Southern Review, Witness, and the Southwest Review. She has received fellowships and awards from the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley with her husband and two children, and teaches creative writing at James Madison University.
Fitzgerald spent her time at MacDowell working on her first novel, The End of Conversation, which is set in Boston, New Jersey, and Lebanon.
