Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novels Barn 8 and Vacation, the memoir Revolution, two story collections, and a graphic novel. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, and McSweeney’s. She received a Guggenheim fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches for the Michener Center for Writers and the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin and also directs the Pen City Writers, a creative-writing program at a south Texas penitentiary.