About M

M Hendrix (she/her) is the author of The Chaperone, published by Sourcebooks Fire on June 6, 2023.

M* earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University before studying literature and creative writing in graduate school, receiving her master’s degree from Miami University and her doctorate from the University of Cincinnati, where she was a Taft Fellow. She has been nominated five times for the Pushcart Prize and was shortlisted for the Aesthetica creative writing award. She is represented by John Cusick of Folio Literary. 

Her work has appeared in Newsweek, Aesthetica, The Independent, USA Today, The Vestal Review, Psychology Today, The Satirist, Nzuri, The Haven, Letters to Dead Authors, Medium, 2nd & Church, Word Salad, Quirk, Cairn, Gravity Hill, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Bowling Green Daily News, and more. She is also the author of two previous books. For a complete list of publications, click here.

After she was born, M lived in St. Vincent’s Infant Center, an orphanage in Maryland, before being adopted by two incredibly loving parents. As an adult, she has learned her biological father was a Sephardic Jew who lived in Israel and her biological mother is Irish American.

Born in Baltimore and raised in New Jersey and Indiana, she has lived in twelve states and now makes her home in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where she’s lived for fifteen years with her husband, New York Times bestselling author David Bell. 

The Chaperone is her first novel.