We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Ariel was raised on the campus of Choate Rosemary Hall, a preparatory school in Connecticut, which she later attended as a student. She went on to the University of St. Andrews in Scotland where she earned her Masters of Arts (Honors) Degree First Class from the School of English in 2008. It was there that she met poet and novelist John Burnside, whose influence has shaped her idea of the kind of writer she hopes to become.

To date Ariel has finished three award-winning short stories: "My Cousin Nurse Mindy Who Saw the Feet of Elvis One Day" (2007), "Shutter" (2008), and "Whites-Only Grocery" (2009). Her latest piece "Thump Thump" appears in Issue 10 of Slice Magazine. Ariel currently lives in greater Boston. She is at work on her first novel, Before the Flood, set in New Orleans in the weeks before Hurricane Katrina makes landfall.

To contact Ariel, please email her at ariel@arielfaulkner.com.

Last updated February 2012.

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