Born in Singapore in 1968 to American parents, Laird Hunt is the author of nine novels, including the 2021 National Book Award finalist Zorrie. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, the Bridge Prize and a finalist for both the Pen/Faulkner and the Prix Femina Étranger, and was longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal in Literary Excellence. Hunt’s reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Los Angeles Times, and his fiction and translations have appeared in many literary journals, including Conjunctions, McSweeney’s, Bomb and Zoetrope, in the United States and abroad. A former United Nations press officer who was largely raised in rural Indiana, he now lives in Providence where he teaches in Brown University’s Literary Arts Program and spends his days with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, their daughter, Eva, and two cats.
Events
9.20 I will be signing books as part of the 90th anniversary of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (I’m a 2013 alum). Signing follows talks and readings by winners past and present.
9:00-12:30 a.m. Cleveland Public Library - MLK Branch (10601 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
10.7 As part of the National Book Foundation Festival at Sam Houston State I will be reading, speaking and signing books with Erin Entrada Kelly and Octavio Quintanilla.
5:00-7:00 p.m. Orange Ballroom, Sam Houston State, Huntsville, TX