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April Darcy's fiction can be found in Shenandoah, where she was the recipient of the Shenandoah River Fiction Prize, and her nonfiction can be found in Cutleaf and in North American Review, where she was a finalist for the Torch Nonfiction Prize. She was a finalist for the 2023 Robert Day Award in Fiction at New Letters, and a semifinalist for the 2023 Key West Literary Writers Emerging Writer Award in short fiction, the 2022 Halifax Ranch Prize at American Short Fiction, and the 2022 Sewanee Review Fiction Prize. She has received fellowships from Writing by Writers, the Napa Valley Writers Conference, and BookEnds at Southampton Arts of Stony Brook University.
She received a 2020 Elizabeth George Foundation grant, and a 2022 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, both in support of a novel in progress. She is represented by Sarah Bedingfield of Levine Greenberg Rostan, and holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives and teaches creative writing in New Jersey.