Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, The Isle of Youth, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, and the novels Find Me, The Third Hotel, and State of Paradise. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and The Bard Fiction Prize, her work has been longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Born and raised in Florida, she now lives in Hudson, NY and is Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University.