Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg’s most recent novel, The Third Hotel, was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. She is also the author of the novel Find Me and two story collections, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us and The Isle of Youth, both finalists for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her honors include the Bard Fiction Prize, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an O. Henry Award, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Laura’s short fiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Paris Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, BOMB, McSweeney's, Best American Short Stories, and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Laura’s next story collection, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, will be published by FSG in June 2020.