Deb Olin Unferth Explained

Deb Olin Unferth (born November 19, 1968) 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. Unferth was a finalist for a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir, Revolution.^{[1] [2]}

Career

Her work has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, The Paris Review,^[3] Granta,^[4] McSweeney's, The Believer, The Boston Review, Esquire, and other magazines. She is a frequent contributor to Noon. She also has received two Pushcart Prizes. Unferth is a full professor in creative writing at The University of Texas at Austin,^[5] where she teaches for the Michener Center^[6] and the New Writers Project.^[7]

Prison education

She founded and runs the Pen-City Writers, a two-year creative-writing certificate program at a maximum security prison in southern Texas.^{[8] [9]} For this work she won the 2017 Texas Governor's Criminal Justice Service Award.^[10]

Books

• Barn 8 (novel, Graywolf Press), 2020
• Wait Till You See Me Dance (story collection, Graywolf Press), 2017 ^[11]
• I, Parrot (graphic novel) with Elizabeth Haidle, 2017^[12]
• Revolution (memoir, Henry Holt), 2011
• Vacation (novel, McSweeney's), 2008
• Minor Robberies (short stories, McSweeney's), 2007

Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2018^[13]
• Pushcart Prize for "Likeable," 2014^[14]
• National Book Critics Award finalist for Revolution, 2012^[15]
• Pushcart Prize, 2011
• Creative Capital Grant for Literature, 2009^[16]
• Cabell First Novelist Award for Vacation, 2009^[17]
• Pushcart Prize, 2005

Online texts

Nonfiction

• Memoir Manifesto
• Where I Write

Short fiction

• Minor Robberies^[18]

Interviews

• Interview on The Rumpus
• Interview on HTMLGIANT
• Interview on Bookslut with Tao Lin
• 2011 radio interview (50 minutes) at The Bat Segundo Show
• "I Start From a Place of Outrage and Sadness": A conversation on humor in fiction with Elisa Albert, Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, Sam Lipsyte, Zachary Martin, John McNally, and Deb Olin Unferth in Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (24.2)

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20120123143612/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/press-release-draft Press Release
2. https://huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/national-book-critics-circle-awards-_n_1221954.html 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominees Announced
3. Voltaire Night. 2015. Summer 2015. 213. Unferth. Deb Olin. The Paris Review.
4. Web site: Deb Olin Unferth.
5. Web site: Profile for Deb Olin Unferth at UT Austin. liberalarts.utexas.edu.
6. Web site: Michener Center for Writers.
7. Web site: pg slot เว็บ ตรง. pg slot เว็บ ตรง.
8. News: Thursday: Deb Olin Unferth and Andrea Lawlor. April 1, 2018. The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa). June 26, 2023. M6. Newspapers.com.
9. Web site: Heartbreaking True Stories from Inside Texas Prisons. 3 March 2017 .
10. Web site: Austin Woman Receives Governor's 2017 Criminal Justice Volunteer Award . 2024-02-04.
11. Web site: Wait till You See Me Dance | Graywolf Press.
12. Web site: I, Parrot: A Graphic Novel by Deb Olin Unferth and Elizabeth Haidle.
13. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Deb Olin Unferth.
14. Web site: Welcome to Pushcart Press: Publishers of the Pushcart Prize.
15. Web site: 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Nominees Announced . huffingtonpost.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120125062207/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/22/national-book-critics-circle-awards-_n_1221954.html . 2012-01-25.
16. Web site: Creative Capital . creative-capital.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090523111213/http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/308 . 2009-05-23.
17. Web site: Deb Olin Unferth takes Cabell First Novelist Award. 15 August 2009.
18. Web site: Unferth . Deb Olin . 2004-07-01 . Minor Robberies . 2022-09-01 . AGNI Online.