Education: B.A., Rollins College (2005)
M.F.A., Emerson College (2008)

Interests: Fiction Writing

Selected Works: State of Paradise (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024); I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020); The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018); (Find Me) Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015); The Isle of Youth: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013)

Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), one of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bard Fiction Prize, an O. Henry Award, and has twice been shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her next novel, State of Paradise, will be published by FSG in 2024.