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Laird Hunt

Laird Hunt is the author of five novels from Coffee House Press: The Impossibly (2001), Indiana, Indiana (2003), The Exquisite (2006), Ray of the Star (2009), and Kind One (2012), which was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner award and the winner of a 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. His translation of Oliver Rohe’s Vacant Lot was published by Counterpath Press, who also published his co-translation with Anne-Laure Tissut of Arno Bertina’s Brando, My Solitude. His writings, reviews and translations have appeared in McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Bomb, Bookforum, Grand Street, The Believer, Conjunctions, Brick, and elsewhere. Hunt is currently on faculty in the University of Denver’s Creative Writing Program, where he edits the Denver Quarterly.

Residencies
  • 2013