Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of five books, including the story collection Wait Till You See Me Dance. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, Tin House, the New York Times, NOON,and McSweeney’s. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a Creative Capital grant, four Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin, where she teaches in the Michener Center and New Writers Project, she also runs the Pen City Writers, a creative writing program at a penitentiary in southern Texas.