Born in Singapore in 1968 to American parents, Laird Hunt is the author of nine novels, including the 2021 National Book Award finalist Zorrie. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, the Bridge Prize and a finalist for both the Pen/Faulkner and the Prix Femina Étranger, and was longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal in Literary Excellence. A new novel, Burn the Blue Water, will be published in 2027 by Bloomsbury. Hunt’s reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Los Angeles Times, and his fiction and translations have appeared in many literary journals, including Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, Bomb and Zoetrope, in the United States and abroad. A former United Nations press officer who was largely raised in rural Indiana, he now lives in Providence where he teaches in Brown University’s Literary Arts Program and spends his days with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, their daughter, Eva, and two cats.
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*The first installment of “Goodman”, the sequel to my 2018 witchy novel, In the House in the Dark of the Woods, has begun serializing at brand, spanking new Tilden Magazine ! Happy to be in company there with some fabulous writers and artists. First issue is free and subscriptions going forward are very affordable.