Bio
Maria Mutch is the author of Know the Night, a memoir published by Knopf Canada and Simon & Schuster, the story collection When We Were Birds (Simon & Schuster Canada), and the novel Molly Falls to Earth (Simon & Schuster Canada).
Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Threepenny Review, Literary Hub, Poets & Writers, Alaska Quarterly Review, The NormalSchool, Guernica, SmokeLong, Juked, Necessary Fiction, Fiction Writers Review, Southeast Review, Ocean State Review, Bayou Magazine, Literary Mama, The Drum, The Malahat Review, Fiddlehead and Grain. A short story, "Hot Hot Day," published by The Malahat Review (issue #114), was a Canadian National Magazine Award Finalist.
Born and raised in Canada, she has a degree in visual art from York University in Toronto.
Know the Night, her debut book, was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, as well as being chosen for Oprah.com’s “Memoirs Too Powerful to Put Down,” The Globe & Mail's Top 100, MacLean's Magazine's Best Reads, and Late Night Library's Literary Voices Program.
She is a GrubStreet writing consultant, and a certified mindfulness meditation teacher. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and two sons.