Deb Olin Unferth
Deb Olin Unferth (born 1969) is an American short-story writer, novelist, and memoirist. She is the author of the collection of stories Minor Robberies, the novel Vacation, both published by McSweeney's, and the memoir, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, published by Henry Holt. Unferth was a finalist for a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir, Revolution.[1][2]
Career
Her work has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, "The Paris Review",[3] "Granta", [4] McSweeney's, The Believer, The Boston Review, Esquire, and other magazines. She is a frequent contributor to Noon. She also has received two Pushcart Prizes and was chosen by Harper's Baazar as an "Editors' Choice: Names to Know in 2011".[5] Unferth is an associate professor in creative writing at The University of Texas at Austin,[6] where she teaches in the Michener Center[7] and the New Writers Project.[8]
Books
- Revolution (memoir), 2011
- Vacation (novel), 2008
- Minor Robberies (short stories), 2007
Awards
- Pushcart Prize for "Likeable," 2014[9]
- National Book Critics Award finalist for Revolution, 2012[10]
- Pushcart Prize, 2011
- Creative Capital Grant for Innovative Literature, 2009[11]
- Cabell First Novelist Award for Vacation, 2009[12]
- Pushcart Prize, 2005
Online Texts
Non-Fiction
- Memoir Manifesto
- Where I Write
- Unferth reads from her memoir Revolution on the InDigest podcast
Short Fiction
Interviews
- Interview on The Rumpus
- Interview on HTMLGIANT
- Interview on Bookslut with Tao Lin
- 2011 radio interview (50 minutes) at The Bat Segundo Show
- "I Start From a Place of Outrage and Sadness": A conversation on humor in fiction with Elisa Albert, Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, Sam Lipsyte, Zachary Martin, John McNally, and Deb Olin Unferth in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (24.2)
References
- ↑ Press Release, National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalist for Publishing Year 2011. By Barbara Hoffert. 21 Jan. 2012. Retrieved 27 Jan. 2012
- ↑ 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominees Announced, Huffingtonpost. By Hillel Italie. 22 Jan. 2012. Retrieved 25 Jan 2012.
- ↑ http://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6378/voltaire-night-deb-olin-unferth
- ↑ http://granta.com/contributor/deb-olin-unferth/
- ↑ http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/feature-articles/names-to-know-2011#slide-4
- ↑ http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/faculty/du879
- ↑ http://www.utexas.edu/academic/mcw/faculty/resident-faculty/deb-olin-unferth/
- ↑ https://newwritersproject.org/faculty/
- ↑ http://www.pushcartprize.com/news.html
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/national-book-critics-circle-awards-_n_1221954.html
- ↑ http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/308
- ↑ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/debi-olin-unferth-takes-first-novelist-award.html