Sandra Novack | |
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| Born | 1972 (age 52–53) Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA) |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
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Sandra Novack (born 1972) is an American writer of a novel and short stories. Her debut novel, Precious, was a Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2009. [1]
Novack was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1972, to Joanne Novack, a court systems operator at Lehigh County Courthouse, and Joseph Novack, a millwright at Bethlehem Steel.
She earned an MA in literature from the University of Cincinnati in 1999. [2] In 2003, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, Vermont. [2]
Novack's short stories have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast , Descant, and Chattahoochee Review .
Stephen King named Novack's story "Memphis" a "Distinguished Story" in The Best American Short Stories , published in 2007. [3] She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize, and her nonfiction work "Hunk" was nominated as a runner-up for the 2006 Iowa Review Award, [4] and she is a recipient of the 2010-2011 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship [5] and 2011 Illinois Arts Council grant. [6]
Her short story collection, Everyone But You, was published by Random House in 2011. [7] Her work has been translated into Dutch. [8]
Novack lives in Oak Park, Illinois. [5]
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