Writers Speak | Catherine Lacey in conversation with Laura van den Berg
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Speaker: Catherine Lacey
In Conversation with Laura van den Berg
About the Speakers
Catherine Lacey is author most recently of The Möbius Book, as well as the novels Biography of X, Pew, Nobody Is Ever Missing, and The Answers, as well as the story collection Certain American States. Her honors include a fellowship at The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Brooklyn Book Prize, a Whiting Award, an O. Henry Award, the Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Lesbian Fiction Award from Lambda. She was named one of Granta Magazine's Best Young American Novelists in 2017, was twice short-listed for both the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Jean Stein Book Award, and has published with magazines such as Harper's, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages including Japanese and Persian. In 2027, she will publish a second collection of short stories called My Stalkers. She lives in México with her husband, Daniel Saldaña París.
Laura van den Berg is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Harvard University. She is the author of seven works of fiction, most recently the novel State of Paradise. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bard Fiction Prize, an O. Henry Award, and has been shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Her next novel, Ring of Night, is forthcoming from FSG.
About the Series: Writers Speak
Writers Speak brings significant contemporary writers to speak on campus, with the intention of fostering literary conversation.