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STACEY D’ERASMO
Stacey D’Erasmo is the author of five novels and two books of nonfiction. Her first novel, Tea (Algonquin, 2000), was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Her second novel, A Seahorse Year (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday and won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Ferro-Grumley Award. Her third novel, The Sky Below, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009 (a favorite book of the year for the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun Times, and the New York Times). Her nonfiction book The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between was published by Graywolf Press in 2013. Her fourth novel, Wonderland, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2014 (named one of the ten best books of the year by Time and the BBC, also among NPR’s best books of 2014). Her novel The Complicities (Algonquin, 2022) was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her nonfiction book The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry is forthcoming from Graywolf Press on July 9, 2024. D’Erasmo’s articles and podcasts have been published in The New York Times Book Review, New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, Interview, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times. She is frequently a faculty member at the Breadloaf Writers Conference. D’Erasmo was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2009, and was the 2010-11 Sovern/Columbia Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. She received the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2012.
She is currently Co-Director of Creative Writing and Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University in New York City.
