Kerry Neville is the author of the memoir, Momma May Be Mad, and two collections of stories, Necessary Lies, which received the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize and was named a ForeWord Magazine Short Story Book of the Year, and Remember to Forget Me. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Gettysburg Review, Epoch, TriQuarterly, Brevity, The Washington Post, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. She has twice been the recipient of the Dallas Museum of Art’s “Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction,” and has also been awarded the Texas Institute of Letters Kay Cattarulla Prize for the Short Story and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize from Crab Orchard Review. Her essays and short stories have been named Notables in Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of a Tyrone Guthrie Centre Artist's Residency in Ireland. She received her Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from University of Houston. She was a Fulbright Fellow at University of Limerick in Ireland and continues as a guest lecturer for UL’s Creative Writing Program. She is a faculty member in the creative writing program at Georgia College and State University and is Interim Chair of the Department of Communication.

"Neville has an eclectic, genre-defying writing style—an accomplished poet and short-story writer, she pushes the boundaries and rules of grammar (reflecting on the nature of memory, she writes, “The self becomes erratic and unstable: no I, just iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii…”). The memoir eschews chronological organization—the narrative can traverse dozens of topics in just a handful of pages. A trip to Flannery O’Connor’s home, for instance, triggers recollections of the author’s Catholic upbringing, her experiences with exorcisms, and her self-diagnosis of subclinical graphomania in the course of four pages. While sometimes disorienting, this approach (which also interrupts the text with the occasional poem or reproduction of a journal entry) effectively allows readers into Neville’s brilliant, if often tortured, mind.An unusually intriguing and poignant memoir."

     -Kirkus Reviews

I have long been a fan of Kerry Neville's writing, her shapely sentences and paragraphs, her characters' emotional complexities and the fearless loop-de-loops in her narrative arcs. But in these stories she brings a hard won and singular wisdom to the page, a gravity and elegance that makes the stories linger in my mind long after the significant pleasure of reading them.

           -Pam Houston

"In these beautiful stories, Kerry Neville moves effortlessly between young and old, Europe and America, always with passion, empathy and marvellous intelligence. Her vivid characters do not give up on love, despite distance, age and indignity. Remember To Forget Me is a wonderful and deeply rewarding collection."

                  -Margot Livesey