Laurie Sheck

Fiction Writer, Poet

New York, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

I am very interested in hybridity and mixed-genre works, and non-fiction as a dynamic and activating presence within hybrid works that blur the lines between "fiction" and "poetry." I am also deeply interested in the multi-vocal. My latest works are long hybrids--A Monster's Notes ( which re-imagines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and the forthcoming Island of the Mad, which involves itself with Venice, the Venetian Plague of 1557, and the lives and works of Dostoevsky and Bulgakov. A Monster's Notes was chosen as one of the 10 Best Fictions of the Year by Entertainment Weekly and was long-listed for the Dublin Impac International Fiction Prize. I have taught at Princeton, Columbia (graduate program)and elsewhere, and have presented my work at Harvard, NYU, the New York Public Library, Vermont Studio Center, Te Center for Fiction, NYC, PEN World Voices, Baruch College CUNY, and elsewhere. I am interested in Chinese culture and have a Chinese daughter.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
Island of the Mad (Counterpoint Press, 2017)
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A Monster's Notes (Knopf, 2009)
Journals: ,
Paris Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Best American Poetry (Macmillan, 2000)
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Best American Poetry (Macmillan, 1991)
Books:
Captivity (Knopf, 2007)
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Poem A Day 2 (Steerforth Press, 2003)
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Black Series (Knopf, 2001)
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The Willow Grove (Knopf, 1996)
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Io at Night (Knopf, 1990)
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Amaranth (University of Georgia Press, 1981)
Journals:
New York Times
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The New Yorker
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Verse
Prizes won: 

finalist, Pulitzer Prize
Guggenheim Fellowship
Two NEA Fellowships
Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library
Etc.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride, Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff, In A Year of 13 Moons (screenplay) by RW Fassbinder, Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin, Slow Manifesto by Lebbeus Woods

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
bronx, ny
Raised in: 
new york, NY
New York
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Last update: Dec 08, 2016