Deb Olin Unferth

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]

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]

• Barn 8 (novel, Graywolf Press), 2020
• Wait Till You See Me Dance (story collection, Graywolf Press), 2017 [10]
• I, Parrot (graphic novel) with Elizabeth Haidle, 2017[11]
• Revolution (memoir, Henry Holt), 2011
• Vacation (novel, McSweeney's), 2008
• Minor Robberies (short stories, McSweeney's), 2007

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018[12]
• Pushcart Prize for "Likeable," 2014[13]
• National Book Critics Award finalist for Revolution, 2012[14]
• Pushcart Prize, 2011
• Creative Capital Grant for Literature, 2009[15]
• Cabell First Novelist Award for Vacation, 2009[16]
• Pushcart Prize, 2005