Maureen Aitken - Author Bio

Maureen Aitken’s short-story collection, The Patron Saint of Lost Girls, received a Kirkus star, the Nilsen Prize, and the Foreword Review INDIE Gold Prize for General Fiction. It will be reissued in September, 2025 by Wayne State University Press. Her stories have earned a Minnesota State Arts Board’s Artist Initiative Grant, a Loft Mentor Award, an award from Ireland’s Fish Short Story Prize, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. The book was a finalist in the Minnesota Book Awards. Her stories have been published widely in journals such as Prairie Schooner and New Letters. Most recently, she was a finalist for The Missouri Review’s Perkoff Prize.

Maureen Aitken has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, and Hamline University.