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PRAISE FOR MARIBETH’S BOOKS

“The fear of losing a child is horrifying. The fear of knowing people think you hurt that child is annihilating. In The Life You Longed For, Maribeth Fischer probes the netherworld of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy in an affecting, startling story. This may be the novel you longed for.”
— Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of The Ocean and Cage of Stars
“(The Language of Good-bye) is filled with flourishes of lyricism and domestic wisdom resulting in a kind of savoring of sorrow. Ms. Fischer’s gentle probing into the smallest tinges of emotion endow her book with an appealing sense of humanity as she presents one couples’ struggle to retain what they have found in each other while accepting what they have tossed aside.”
— Judi Goldenberg, Richmond Times Dispatch

BOOKS

ESSAYS

  • Fall 2018: “She and I” Fourth Genre

  • January, 2017: “Damages” The Yale Review

  • April, 2016: “What WE Cannot See,” Creative Nonfiction

  • January, 2015: “The Fiction Writer.” The Yale Review (Pushcart Prize Winner)

  • July 1999: “Words” The Yale Review Volume 88, Number 4.

  • October 1998: “Sorrowing” The Yale Review. Volume 85, Number 4.

  • October 1994: “Long Distance” The Iowa Review

  • October 1997: “Lottery,” The Yale Review, Volume 84, Number 1.

  • July 1994: “Stillborn” The Iowa Review (Pushcart Prize Winner)

Maribeth interviews Alice Hoffman