About Mary-Beth Hughes
Photo: Marion Ettlinger
Mary-Beth Hughes is the author of two books of stories and two novels.
From an early age, she was also a dancer. She began taking ballet classes at three and was immediately recognized as unpromising. She continued dancing into her late thirties and had the great privilege of studying with Janet Panetta, Lynn Simonson, and at the Merce Cunningham studio at Westbeth.
As a young teenager, she discovered a passionate interest in fiction writing and in her forties, published her first short story in The Georgia Review. Since then, Mary-Beth has taught at the Bennington College Writing Seminars, the Pratt Institute, and most recently, Skidmore College. She has the pleasure of teaching a workshop from time to time for the Academy founded by Brigid Hughes at A Public Space.
Mary-Beth has been a Director’s Guest at Civitella Ranieri, a fellow at MacDowell, and a director and member of the Corporation of Yaddo. She is thankful for ballerina Jamie Dowd of The Floor on Atlantic Avenue and to the Cunningham dancers on Instagram who keep us dancing, even now.
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