Carol Anshaw

Carol Anshaw (born March 22, 1946) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her books include "Lucky in the Corner", "Seven Moves", "Aquamarine", and "Carry the One". 
Personal life.
Carol Anshaw was born on March 22, 1946 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Her mother was Virginia Anshaw Stanley and her father was Henry G. Stanley. During Anshaw's adolescence, her family lived in Michigan and Florida.
Anshaw received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University in 1968. After graduation, she moved to Chicago.
In 1969, she married Charles J. White III. The couple eventually divorced in 1985.
She acquired her Master of Fine Arts degree at Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1992.
Since 1996 Anshaw has been partners with the documentary-maker and photographer, Jessie Ewing. They were married on May 25, 2014. Now, the couple divides their time between Chicago and Amsterdam.
Now, Anshaw is also a painter, and she teaches in the MFA Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Career.
Anshaw has been writing fiction since 1972. Her stories have appeared in "Story" magazine, "Tin House", "The Best American Stories" and "Do Me: Tales of Sex and Love from Tin House". It is possible that she wrote under the pseudonyms Carol Stanley, Carol White, and Emily Chase. 
She has published five fiction novels. Her first, "Aquamarine" (1992), was critically acclaimed and acted as a precursor to the movies "Sliding Doors" and "Melinda and Melinda." 
Perhaps Anshaw's most popular novel,"Carry the One" (2012), has been highly regarded as a portrait of grief and American culture. The novel received warm endorsements from Emma Donoghue and Alison Bechdel. Set in Wisconsin in the 1980s, Anshaw deftly takes the narrative's point of view from character to character, showing "how time affects relationships, tipping emotional dominoes one way or another within a family or circle of friends."
Her stories have been anthologized in "The Best American Short Stories" in 1994, 1998, and 2012.
She has won a National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, an NEA Grant, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, a Carl Sandburg Award, a Ferro-Grumley Award and Society of Midland Authors Award.
Anshaw is also a painter. "Walking Through Leaves," her painted biography of the novelist and poet, Vita Sackville-West was up in November 2013 at Rockford University, Rockford, IL.