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Laura van den Berg | |
|---|---|
 van den Berg (2015) | |
| Born | May 31, 1983 Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Education | Rollins College (BA) Emerson College (MFA) |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Spouse | Paul Yoon |
| Website | |
| lauravandenberg | |
Laura van den Berg (born May 31, 1983) is an American fiction writer.[1] She is the author of five works of fiction. Her first two collections of short stories were each shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, in 2010 and 2014. In 2021, she was awarded the Strauss Livings Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Biography
[edit]Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She has a BA from Rollins College (2005) and an M.F.A. from Emerson College (2008). Her stories have been published in The Paris Review[2], McSweeney's[3][4], BOMB[5], Virginia Quarterly Review[6][7], Conjunctions[8], American Short Fiction[9][10], Ploughshares[11][12][13], Glimmer Train[14] and One Story[15][16].
Her first collection of short stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was published in 2009, and her second collection, The Isle of Youth, was published in 2013.[17][18] A third short story collection, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, was published in 2020.[19]
Her other books include two novels, Find Me (2015) and The Third Hotel (2018),[20] which was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. Van den Berg has also published a chapbook of flash fiction, There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights (2012).[21]
Van den Berg lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, Paul Yoon.[22][23]
She is currently a senior lecturer at Harvard University in the English Department, where she is also Director of Creative Writing.[24]
Awards and honors
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- 2010 The Story Prize longlist for What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us[25]
- 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist for What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us[17]
- 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award shortlist for The Isle of Youth[18]
- 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award winner for The Isle of Youth[26]
- 2019 Young Lions Fiction Award shortlist
- 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters Strauss Livings Award
- 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship
Selected works
[edit]- What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, Dzanc Books (2009)
- There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights, Origami Zoo Press / Bull City Press (2012)
- The Isle of Youth, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2013)
- Find Me, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2015)
- The Third Hotel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2018) ISBN 978-0374168353
- I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) ISBN 978-0374102098
- State of Paradise: A Novel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2024) ISBN 978-0374612207
References
[edit]- ↑ Serber, Natalie (November 22, 2013). "Worst-Laid Plans". The New York Times. Retrieved July 25, 2024.
- ↑ "Author Contribution Portal".
The Paris Review. Retrieved August 5, 2026. - ↑ "Issue 55". Mcsweeney's. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Issue 68". Mcsweeney's. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Author Contribution Portal". BOMB. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Spring 2019 Issue". Virginia Quarterly Review. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Summer 2022 Issue". Virginia Quarterly Review. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Author Contribution Portal". Conjunctions. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Author Contribution Portal". American Short Fiction. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "ASF Alumni: Laura van den Berg". American Short Fiction. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Author Contribution Portal". Ploughshares. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Blog Contribution Portal". Ploughshares. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Spring 2021 Issue". Ploughshares. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "Laura van der Berg". Glimmer Train. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "The Greatest Escape". One Story. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- ↑ "What the World World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us". One Story. Retrieved August 5, 2026.
- 1 2 Flood, Alison (July 9, 2010). "US writers dominate Frank O'Connor award shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved September 14, 2011.
- 1 2 Alison Flood (June 13, 2014). "Frank O'Connor prize shortlist pits 'masters' against first-timers". The Guardian. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
- ↑ "I Hold a Wolf by the Ears". lauravandenberg.com. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
- ↑ "About Laura". lauravandenberg.com. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
- ↑ "There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights". lauravandenberg.com. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
- ↑ "Laura van den Berg". FSG Originals. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
- ↑ Sutherland, Amy (August 3, 2017). "Paul Yoon is a big fan of new fiction with a soft spot for classics". The Boston Globe. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
- ↑ "Laura van den Berg".
- ↑ The Story Prize (January 27, 2010). "TSP: A Long List (That Could Be Even Longer)". TSP. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
- ↑ "The American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2014 Literature Awards Winners". American Academy of Arts and Letters. March 10, 2014. Archived from the original on May 22, 2014. Retrieved June 16, 2014.
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