Awards Sherwood Anderson Foundation Writers Award Books Miracle Girls, Pretend I'm Your Friend, Lucy on the West Coast and Other | ||
Mary Beth Caschetta (Born August 30, 1966) is an American writer and blogger best known for her blog Literary Rejections On Display.
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Literary Rejections On Display
Caschetta began the blog Literary Rejections On Display anonymously in 2007 identifying herself only as Writer, Rejected. The blog was initially composed solely of Caschetta's rejections from literary journals with all personal information crossed out. As the blog gained in popularity she began to post anonymous submissions from readers that had been sent to her.
Caschetta also used the blog to anonymously chronicle her own journey with her novel, and her efforts to obtain an agent and publish the work. Caschetta put the blog on hiatus in 2012 before returning in 2014 with the news that she had sold her novel. On November 7, 2014 she wrote a blog post in which she revealed herself as MB Caschetta, and the novel she had been trying to publish as Miracle Girls.
Fiction
In 1996 Caschetta published a collection of short stories Lucy on the West Coast and Other Lesbian Short Fiction under the name Mary Beth Caschetta.
In 2014 Caschetta published Miracle Girls with Engine Press. Miracle Girls won a 2014 gold medal IPPY Award and an IndieFAB Book of the Year Award and in the spiritual category for the Paris Book Festival, Amsterdam Book Festival, and the San Francisco Book Festival. It was also a finalist for Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction. It was also an Honorable Mention selection for the Spiritual Category of the 2015 Los Angeles Book Festival and the general fiction category at New York Book Festival.
Personal life
Caschetta is the youngest of 4 children. In 2011 she wrote an essay about her physician father's decision to disinherit her for The New York Times.
Caschetta has been married to advice columnist Meryl Cohn since 2004.