Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.

Deb Olin Unferth is an American short-story writer, novelist, and memoirist. She is the author of the collection of stories Minor Robberies, the novel Vacation, both published by McSweeney's, and the memoir, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, published by Henry Holt.

Her work has appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's, The Believer, The Boston Review, Esquire, and other magazines. She is a frequent contributor to Noon. In 2009 she received a Creative Capital Grant from the Warhol Foundation and was also the recipient of the Cabell First Novelist Award for Vacation.[1] She also has received two Pushcart Prizes and was chosen by Harper's Baazar as an "Editors' Choice: Names to Know in 2011". Unferth teaches creative writing at Wesleyan University. She has been a vegan since 2008.[2].

Online Texts

Non-Fiction

• Memoir Manifesto
• Where I Write
• Unferth reads from her memoir Revolution on the InDigest podcast

Short Fiction

• Avenue Journal
• La Pena
• Minor Robberies

Interviews

• Interview on The Rumpus
• Interview on HTMLGIANT
• Interview on Bookslut with Tao Lin
• 2011 radio interview (50 minutes) at The Bat Segundo Show

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