# Laura van den Berg Senior Lecturer Director of Creative Writing ![vandenberg](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/english/files/lauraauthorphoto_1.jpg?itok=e8jKE8PD) location\_on Office: Lamont Library 409 smartphone [617-495-2098](tel:617-495-2098) email [laura\_vandenberg@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:laura_vandenberg@fas.harvard.edu) laptop\_windows [Faculty Website](http://lauravandenberg.com/) Please use this link to schedule office hours: 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 six works of fiction, including *The Third Hotel* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award; *I Hold a Wolf by the Ears* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020), which was one of *Time Magazine’s* 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020; and, most recently, *State of Paradise* (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has twice been shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her next novel, *Ring of Night*, is forthcoming from FSG. - ## Person Categories [Faculty](/person-categories/faculty) - ## Role [Administration](/role/staff) [Faculty](/role/faculty) [Undergraduate Administration](/role/undergraduate-administration)