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.
— Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of The Ocean and Cage of Stars
(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.
— Judi Goldenberg, Richmond Times Dispatch

BOOKS


ESSAYS

  • 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)

join the growing list of book clubs who invite maribeth to speak! she’s always happy to connect with readers. reach out here.

  • Mar 19: Fiction Book Club at Sawgrass North, Rehoboth Beach, De

  • Mar 31: Angola By the Bay Book Club, Lewes, DE

  • Apr 10: The Neighborhood Book Club, Waukesha, WI

  • Apr 28: The Very Good Looking Damn Smart Women’s Book Club, Lewes, DE

  • May 1: Tower Hill Book Club, Lewes, DE

  • May 6: Showfield Community Book Club, Lewes, DE

  • May 14: Governor’s Community Book Club, Lewes, DE

  • May 15: Hawthorne Community Author Talk, Lewes, DE

  • July 13: The Big Book Club, Rehoboth Beach, DE

Maribeth interviews Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark