Touch (Maum) - Author Bio

Author Bio
Courtney Maum is the author of the novels Touch (2017) and I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You (2014), and the chapbook "Notes from Mexico."

Her short fiction, book reviews, and essays on the writing life have been widely published in outlets such as The New York Times, O Magazine, Tin House, Electric Literature, and Buzzfeed, and she has co-written films that have debuted at Sundance and won awards at Cannes.

Maum graduated from Brown University with a degree in Comparative Literature. She spent several yeaars as a trend forecaster, a fashion publicist, and a party promoter for Corona Extra. Part of that time (five years) she lived in France. She currently works as a product namer for M·A·C cosmetics and other companies from her home in Litchfield County, CT, where she founded the multidisciplinary creative retreat, #TheCabins. (From the publisher.)