Charmaine Craig is the author of the novels Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and the Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Nemesis; and The Good Men, a national bestseller. Her essays have appeared in venues including The New York Times Magazine, Narrative Magazine, and Dissent. Formerly an actor in film and television, she serves as a faculty member in the Department of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.
At MacDowell, Craig worked on her fourth novel, Actors, the second book in a larger project about relationships between women. The first novel in this project, My Nemesis (Grove, 2023), was longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize.
