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Sigrid Nunez has published five novels: A Feather on the Breath of God, Naked Sleeper, Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury, For Rouenna, and The Last of Her Kind. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including two Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian-American literature. A new edition of Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury is scheduled for publication in spring, 2007 (Soft Skull Press).

A Feather on the Breath of God was a finalist for both the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers Award. It also received the Association for Asian American Studies Award for best novel of the year. Mitz, a mock biography of Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s pet monkey, won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Sigrid Nunez has also been the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award and of a residency from the Lannan Foundation. She was the 2000-2001 Rome Prize Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome. In 2003, she was elected as a Literature Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In spring 2005, she was the Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Sigrid Nunez received her BA from Barnard College, her MFA from Columbia University and the New School. She has taught at Amherst College, Smith College, and Columbia University, and has been writer in residence at Sarah Lawrence College. She has also been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Rope Walk Writer’s Retreat.

This spring, from March 27 to April 7, Nunez will be in residence at Washington University in St. Louis, as a Visiting Hurst Professor. She will also visit the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, as part of the Loft’s Mentor Series, from May 18 to May 20. In June, she will teach a fiction workshop at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in Manhattan, and in August she will return to the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont.

Sigrid Nunez lives in New York City.