Maryann D'Agincourt, born Maryann Reppucci, in Boston, Massachusetts is the author of the National Book Award-nominated novel Journal of Eva Morelli. She has also written a collection of short stories entitled All Most. Her most recent work, published December 2014, is Glimpses of Gauguin, a novel in sketches.An alumna of Simmons College, she has two graduate degrees in English literature. Her thesis and orals focused on contrary forms of fiction in early twentieth-century British literature. She later studied in the Humber School for Writers, Toronto. Her mentors were M.G. Vassanji, Antanas Sileika, and Sandra Birdsell. She has written design columns for a regional newspaper in the Connecticut Valley, and has had short stories published in literary magazines. As a novel-in-progress, Journal of Eva Morelli was a finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition. A forthcoming novel will be published in 2016.