Maureen Millea Smith is the author of the novel, When Charlotte Comes Home, which won the Minnesota Book Award for Novel & Short Story in 2007. Her essay In Charlotte's Web was published in Minnesota Literature in December 2003 and was chosen as the winner of the 2003 Minnesota Literature essay contest. She won The Tartt's First Fiction Prize for a first collection of short fiction for THE ENIGMA OF IRIS MURPHY (Livingston Press, 2016).