Tracy O'Neill

Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, one of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2015, and Quotients, forthcoming from Soho Press. In 2015, she was named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize, and was a Narrative Under 30 finalist. In 2012, she was awarded the Center for Fiction's Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Rolling Stone, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, LitHub, BOMB, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, the Literarian, New World Writing, Narrative, Scoundrel Time, Guernica, Bookforum, Electric Literature, Grantland, Vice, the Guardian, VQR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Catapult. She holds an MFA in fiction from the City College of New York as well as an MA and MPhil in communications from Columbia University. She has taught at a number of schools, including the Hunter College MFA program, Columbia University, the Mountainview MFA program, the City College of New York, and the Sarah Lawrence MFA program.