Laird Hunt

Laird Hunt is the author of seven novels, with an eighth, Zorrie, forthcoming from Bloomsbury USA in early 2021. He is the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, the Bridge Prize and was a finalist for both the Pen/Faulkner and the Prix Femina Étranger. His 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 has appeared in many literary journals here and abroad. A former United Nations press officer, he lives in Providence where he teaches in Brown University’s Literary Arts Program.