Allegra Hyde

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Allegra Hyde is an American writer. She is originally from Peterborough, New Hampshire. [1] She teaches creative writing at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. [2] She has also taught at Oberlin College and Warren Wilson College. [3]

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Early life and education

Born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Hyde graduated from ConVal Regional High School. [4] She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College and Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University. [5] [2] At Williams College, Hyde studied with Jim Shepard. [6] She received a Fullbright Grant to teach in English in Bulgaria. [7] [8] [9]

Career

During graduate school, she published a series of short stories titled "Of This New World." [10] The collection received a positive review in The Gazette. [11] Hyde published her debut novel, Eleutheria, in 2022. The New Yorker named Eleutheria a Best Book of 2022 and it also received a positive review in the Los Angeles Times. [12] [13] It was also shortlisted for the First Novelist Award and featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers. [2] Her short story collection The Last Catastrophe (2023) was a New York Times Editors' Choice Selection. [2]

Hyde's work has been awarded the Pushcart Prize four times and has appeared in The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Short Stories. [2]

Hyde's influences include Octavia Butler, Julie Otsuka, and Denis Johnson. [14] Much of Hyde's work falls into the category of climate fiction. [15]

Publications

Books

Short fiction

Non-fiction

References

  1. "Allegra Hyde". MacDowell. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Allegra Hyde". Smith College. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  3. "Allegra Hyde". Literary Cleveland.
  4. "Allegra Hyde to speak". Monadnock Ledger. 2016-12-01. pp. a14. Retrieved 2025-05-19 via Newspapers.com.
  5. Tenor, Kristin (2 Jan 2025). "Finding Our Shared Humanity in Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe". Story Magazine. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  6. Scarpa, Vincent (20 October 2016). "Allegra Hyde on Seeking a Better World". Electric Literature. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  7. Hyde, Allegra (2015-09-22). "If we could hold it in our hands". Monadnock Ledger. pp. s8. Retrieved 2025-05-19 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Hyde 2". Monadnock Ledger. 2015-09-22. pp. s9. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
  9. "Milestones: Academics". Monadnock Ledger. 2015-06-11. pp. a12. Retrieved 2025-05-19 via Newspapers.com.
  10. Nickoloff, Anne (2022-03-27). "Oberlin professor explores climate change in new novel 'Elutheria'". The Plain Dealer. pp. D8. Retrieved 2025-05-19 via Newspapers.com.
  11. Farmer, Laura (2016-10-02). "Collection shows utopias are never as they seem". The Gazette . pp. M8. Retrieved 2025-05-21 via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Briefly Noted: "Constructing a Nervous System," "Serenade," "Vagabonds!," and "Eleutheria."". The New Yorker. No. 16 May 2022. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  13. Domini, John (2022-03-14). "The post-cynical heroine we need". The Los Angeles Times. pp. E3. Retrieved 2025-05-21 via Newspapers.com.
  14. Ballard, Gabriel (15 Mar 2025). "Smith Creative Writers Reading Series: Allegra Hyde". Erie Reader. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  15. Sheehan, Michael. "Cli-fi novelist Allegra Hyde to give public reading". SUNY Fredonia . Retrieved 19 May 2025.