Deb Olin Unferth
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Deb Olin Unferth (born November 19, 1968) is an American short story writer, novelist, and memoirist. She is the author of the collection of stories Minor Robberies and 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 four Pushcart Prizes. Unferth is a full professor in creative writing at University of Texas at Austin,[5] where she teaches for the Michener Center[6] and the New Writers Project.[7]
Prison education
She founded and runs the Pen-City Writers, a two-year creative-writing certificate program at a maximum security prison in southern Texas.[8][9] For this work she won the 2017 Texas Governor's Criminal Justice Service Award.[10]
Books
- Minor Robberies (short stories, McSweeney's), 2007
- Vacation (novel, McSweeney's), 2008
- Revolution (memoir, Henry Holt), 2011
- I, Parrot (graphic novel) with Elizabeth Haidle, 2017[11]
- Wait Till You See Me Dance (story collection, Graywolf Press), 2017[12]
- Barn 8 (novel, Graywolf Press), 2020
Awards
- Pushcart Prize, 2005
- Creative Capital Grant for Literature, 2009[13]
- First Novelist Award for Vacation, 2009[14]
- National Book Critics Award finalist for Revolution, 2012[15]
- Pushcart Prize, 2011
- Pushcart Prize for "Likeable", 2014[16]
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018[17]
Online texts
Nonfiction
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
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- ↑ 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.
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External links
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- Living people
- 1969 births
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- MacDowell Colony fellows
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