Deirdre McNamer

Deirdre McNamer is the author of several novels, including Red Rover, which won the Montana Book Award and was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Artforum>. Her essays, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the New York Times, and Outside, among other venues. She has served as a chairperson of National Book Awards and as a judge for the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award. She has taught writing at Cornell University, Williams College, the University of Ohio, the University of Oregon, the University of Alabama, the University of Montana, and the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she currently holds a faculty position.