Laura van den Berg explained

Laura van den Berg
Birth Date:31 May 1983
Birth Place:Florida, U.S.
Occupation:Author
Genre:Fiction
Education:Rollins College (BA)
Emerson College (MFA)
Spouse:Paul Yoon

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

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. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, BOMB, Virginia Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train and One Story.

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. A third short story collection, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, was published in 2020.[2]

Her other books include two novels, Find Me (2015) and The Third Hotel (2018),[3] 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).[4]

Van den Berg lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, Paul Yoon.[5] [6]

She is currently a senior lecturer at Harvard University in the English Department.[7]

Awards and honors

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. News: Serber . Natalie . Worst-Laid Plans . 25 July 2024 . The New York Times . November 22, 2013.
  2. Web site: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears. 2020-12-02. lauravandenberg.com.
  3. Web site: About Laura. 2020-12-02. lauravandenberg.com.
  4. Web site: There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights. 2020-12-02. lauravandenberg.com.
  5. Web site: Laura van den Berg . . February 28, 2020.
  6. Web site: Paul Yoon is a big fan of new fiction with a soft spot for classics . Sutherland . Amy . August 3, 2017 . . February 28, 2020.
  7. https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/laura-van-den-berg
  8. Web site: The Story Prize. January 27, 2010. TSP: A Long List (That Could Be Even Longer). 2020-12-02. TSP.
  9. News: July 9, 2010. US writers dominate Frank O'Connor award shortlist. Alison. Flood. The Guardian. September 14, 2011.
  10. Web site: Frank O'Connor prize shortlist pits 'masters' against first-timers . The Guardian . Alison Flood . June 13, 2014 . June 16, 2014.
  11. Web site: The American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2014 Literature Awards Winners . . March 10, 2014 . June 16, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140522190126/http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2014literature.php . May 22, 2014 .