Gracie Newman recently completed an MFA in Fiction at the Michener Center for Writers. Before that, she studied English at Stanford University.

Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Joyland, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, The Mississippi Review, Fugue, and The Adroit Journal. She is currently working on her first novel

Her writing has been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop,  the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference as a Rona Jaffe Scholar. She was also named an Anthony Veasna So Scholar and winner of the Iowa Review Prize in Fiction. 

She grew up in Buffalo and now lives in Brooklyn.