READ MARIBETH
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.”
“(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.”
BOOKS
A Season of Perfect Happiness, Dutton, August 2024
The Life You Longed For, Touchstone, 2007
The Language of Good-Bye, Dutton, 2001
ESSAYS
AUG 2024: “Writing Happiness: Why it’s worth it to look on the bright side of stories” LIT HUB
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 1997: “Lottery,” The Yale Review, Volume 84, Number 1
October 1994: “Long Distance” The Iowa Review.
July 1994: “Stillborn” The Iowa Review (Pushcart Prize Winner)
