Maxine Swann (born February 11, 1969) is an American fiction author. Swann grew up on a farm in southern Pennsylvania, before attending Phillips Academy and then Columbia College, where she studied under Mary Gordon. She pursued her graduate studies at the Sorbonne, Université de Paris VII, earning her master's degree in 1997 with a thesis on the style of Marcel Proust. She now lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has won the O. Henry Award and the Pushcart Prize. She is a Founding Editor of the bilingual literary magazine "The Buenos Aires Review." She has taught creative writing at Barnard College and also works as a private writing coach.