Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novel Barn 8 (Graywolf Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, NOON, Conjunctions, and McSweeney's. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and a Creative Capital Fellowship, and she was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. A professor at the University of Texas at Austin, she also directs the Pen City Writers, a creative-writing program at a south Texas penitentiary.