Ploughshares to Publish Short Story by Prof. Emerita Janice Furlong
The short story “Back-Up Mom” by Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) Clinical Professor Emerita Janice Furlong will be published in the Summer 2024 issue of Ploughshares, a prominent literary journal described by The New York Times as “the Triton among minnows.”
Furlong’s burgeoning literary success follows an extensive and celebrated career as a social work educator at BUSSW and practicing psychotherapist. She is a four-time recipient of BUSSW’s Teaching Excellence Award and in 2015 received Boston University’s highest teaching award, the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching. She has more than 40 years of clinical practice under her belt and maintains a psychotherapy practice for individuals and families in addition to providing clinical supervision of community-based social workers.
Since retiring from BUSSW in 2022, Furlong has been nominated for a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and participated in GrubStreet’s Short Story Incubator. She also studied with C. Michael Curtis, fiction editor emeritus at The Atlantic. Her short stories have appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review and Washington Square Review, and another will be published in the Fall 2024 issue of the Bellevue Literary Review. She is currently at work on a short story collection.