Danielle Valore Evans

Danielle Evans (born Danielle Valore Evans)[1] is an American fiction writer. In 2011, she was honored by the National Book Foundation as one of its "5 Under 35" fiction writers.[2] Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, her first short story collection, won the 2011 PEN/Robert Bingham Prize. The collection's title echoes a line from "The Bridge Poem," from Kate Rushin's collection The Black Back-Ups (Firebrand Books, 1993).[3] Reviewing the book in The New York Times, Lydia Peelle observed that the stories "evoke the thrill of an all-night conversation with your hip, frank, funny college roommate."[4]

Evans's work was anthologized in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Best American Short Stories collections in 2008 and 2010. Her stories have also appeared in The Paris Review and A Public Space. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature at American University,[5] and in 2014 began teaching in the MFA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[6]

References

  1. "Author Homepage". Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  2. "The National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" Fiction, 2011". Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  3. "http://katerushin.com/pub.html". Retrieved June 20, 2013. External link in |title= (help)
  4. Lydia Peelle, "Between Sisters", The New York Times, October 22, 2010.
  5. "Profile Danielle Evans – College of Arts and Sciences". Retrieved June 20, 2013.
  6. Rosemary Zurlo-Cuva (January 22, 2014). "UW-Madison creative writing program adds Danielle Evans to its faculty roster". Isthmus. Retrieved March 11, 2014.

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