Laura van
den Berg’s Story Collection Selected as B&N Discover Great Books Pick
The title story of Laura's collection will appear in The
Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (November 2009, Pushcart Press). Laura has also had another story
from What The
World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us included in The Best American Nonrequired
Reading 2008 (2008, Houghton Mifflin),
and yet another that will be in Best New American Voices 2010
(October 2009, Mariner Books). As for Dzanc
Books, Laura's selection continues the high
regard their books have received lately, in particular their short story
collections. The Kansas City Star
included 3 collections published by Dzanc or their imprints in their Top 10
Story Collections of 2008. Two Dzanc collections also won medals in last
year’s IPPY Awards.
Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief had this to say about What the World Will Look Like When All the
Water Leaves Us:
“Laura van den Berg finds the tension between science and magic and walks it like a tightrope. Any reader will be glad to have found it.”
About Laura van den Berg
Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida and earned her MFA at Emerson College. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences, the 2009 Julia Peterkin Award, and the 2009-2010 Emerging Writer Lectureship at Gettysburg College. Her fiction has or will soon appear in One Story, Boston Review, Epoch, The Literary Review, American Short Fiction, StoryQuarterly, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Best New American Voices 2010, and The Pushcart Prize XXIV: Best of the Small Presses, among other publications. The winner of the Dzanc Prize, Laura’s first collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, will be published by Dzanc Books in October 2009.
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