Mary Gaitskill

Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill
	Gaitskill at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	November 11, 1954; Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Education	University of Michigan (BA)
Period	1980s–present
Genre	literary short story, novel, essay, Transgressive Fiction
Spouse	Peter Trachtenberg (m. 2001; div. 2010)

Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993, 2006, 2012, 2020), and The O. Henry Prize Stories (1998, 2008). Her books include the short story collection Bad Behavior (1988) and Veronica (2005), which was nominated for both the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

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