Stacey D'Erasmo

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Stacey D'Erasmo
Born1961 (age 62–63)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • literary critic
NationalityAmerican
Education Barnard College (BA)
New York University (MA)
Notable awards Lambda Literary Award (2004)
Ferro-Grumley Award (2004)
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize (2012)

Stacey D'Erasmo (born 1961) is an American author and literary critic.

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Biography

D'Erasmo was born in 1961 in New York City. She received a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from New York University in English and American literature. From 1988 to 1995, she was a senior editor at The Village Voice Literary Supplement. She was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University from 1995 to 1997. She created and developed the fiction review section of Bookforum from 1997 to 1998. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction in 2009. She was the 2010–11 Sovern/Columbia Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.[ citation needed ]

D'Erasmo is the author of four novels and one book of nonfiction. Her first novel, Tea, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. [1] Her second novel, A Seahorse Year (2004), was named a San Francisco Chronicle best seller and won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Ferro-Grumley Award. [2] Her third novel was The Sky Below (2009). Her fourth novel, Wonderland, was named NPR's Best Book of 2014; a Time Top Ten Fiction Book of 2014; a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; and a BBC Top Ten Book of 2014. [3] [4] Her nonfiction book The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between was published in 2013.

D'Erasmo's articles and podcasts have been published in The New York Times Book Review , New York Times Magazine , Ploughshares , Interview, The New Yorker , and the Los Angeles Times . [5] She has been a faculty member at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.

She is currently an associate professor of writing at Fordham University.

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References

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  2. ↑ "A Reader's Guide: "A Seahorse Year" by Stacey D'Erasmo". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  3. ↑ Coster, Naima (August 1, 2014). "Lyrical Impulse: Naima Coster interviews Stacey D'Erasmo". Guernica Magazine .
  4. ↑ Annie Scholl (June 8, 2015). "'Big Voices' Helped Stacey D'Erasmo Find Her Own". Huffington Post .
  5. ↑ "National Book Awards – 2012: Judges' Bios". National Book Foundation.
  6. ↑ Brune, Adrian (July 16, 2004). "An after 'Tea' delight". Washington Blade . Archived from the original on July 25, 2004.
  7. ↑ D'Erasmo, Stacey. "The Complicities". staceyderasmo.com. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  8. ↑ Seriously Entertaining: Stacey D'Erasmo on "Between the Lines", 28 September 2022, retrieved 2023-02-16
  9. ↑ Gabriel, Mary (2024-07-09). "Book Review: 'The Long Run,' by Stacey D'Erasmo". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
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