Deb Olin Unferth

Unferth at the National Book Critics Circle Awards in March 2012, where her book Revolution was an autobiography finalist.

Deb Olin Unferth 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. Unferth is an associate professor in creative writing at The 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] For this work she won the 2017 Texas Governor's Criminal Justice Service Award.[9]

Books

  • Wait Till You See Me Dance (story collection, Graywolf Press), 2017 [10]
  • I, Parrot (graphic novel) with Elizabeth Haidle, 2017[11]
  • Revolution (memoir), 2011
  • Vacation (novel), 2008
  • Minor Robberies (short stories), 2007

Awards

Online Texts

Nonfiction

Short fiction

Interviews

References

  1. ↑ Press Release, National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalist for Publishing Year 2011. By Barbara Hoffert. 21 Jan. 2012. Retrieved 27 Jan. 2012
  2. ↑ 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominees Announced, Huffingtonpost. By Hillel Italie. 22 Jan. 2012. Retrieved 25 Jan 2012.
  3. ↑ http://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/6378/voltaire-night-deb-olin-unferth
  4. ↑ http://granta.com/contributor/deb-olin-unferth/
  5. ↑ http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/faculty/du879
  6. ↑ http://www.utexas.edu/academic/mcw/faculty/resident-faculty/deb-olin-unferth/
  7. ↑ https://newwritersproject.org/faculty/
  8. ↑ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/read-these-brilliant-short-stories-by-texas-prison-inmates
  9. ↑ http://www.tdcj.texas.gov/news/2017_vol_gov_awards/deb_unferth.html
  10. ↑ https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/wait-till-you-see-me-dance
  11. ↑ https://books.catapult.co/products/i-parrot-a-graphic-novel-pre-order
  12. ↑ https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/deb-olin-unferth/
  13. ↑ http://www.pushcartprize.com/news.html
  14. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/national-book-critics-circle-awards-_n_1221954.html
  15. ↑ http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/308
  16. ↑ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/debi-olin-unferth-takes-first-novelist-award.html
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