Alena Graedon

Alena Graedon's first novel, The Word Exchange, was a New York Times Editors' Choice and Paperback Row pick, and selected as a best novel of 2014 by Kirkus and Electric Literature. It has been translated into eight languages. She has twice been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and has also received fellowships at Yaddo, Ucross, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times Book Review, newyorker.com, The Believer magazine, and Guernica, among other publications, and her short fiction has appeared in VICE magazine. A native of Durham, North Carolina, Graedon is a graduate of Brown and Columbia University's MFA program. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.