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Name
  
Deb Unferth


Role
  
Short story writer

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Deb Olin Unferth (born 1968) 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.

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Career

Her work has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, 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. Unferth is an associate professor in creative writing at The University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches for the Michener Center and the New Writers Project.

Prison Education

She founded and runs a two-year creative-writing certificate program at a maximum security prison in southern Texas.

Books

  • Wait Till You See Me Dance (story collection, Graywolf Press), 2017
  • Revolution (memoir), 2011
  • Vacation (novel), 2008
  • Minor Robberies (short stories), 2007
  • Awards

  • Pushcart Prize for "Likeable," 2014
  • National Book Critics Award finalist for Revolution, 2012
  • Pushcart Prize, 2011
  • Creative Capital Grant for Literature, 2009
  • Cabell First Novelist Award for Vacation, 2009
  • Pushcart Prize, 2005
  • Non-Fiction

  • Memoir Manifesto
  • Where I Write
  • Unferth reads from her memoir Revolution on the InDigest podcast
  • Short Fiction

  • Minor Robberies
  • 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

    Deb Olin Unferth Wikipedia


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