Laird Hunt

Laird Hunt studied at Indiana University. The recorded working language is American English, English and French. The field of work recorded is literary activity, belletristic literature and poetry. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are novella. Employment is recorded with Brown University. Distinctions recorded are Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship and Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine.

• Name — Laird Hunt • Born — 3 April 1968 • Birthplace — Singapore • Occupation — Novelist • Education — Indiana University Bloomington (BA) Jack Kerouac School (MFA) • Website — https: www.lairdhunt.org • Spouse — Eleni Sikelianos • Children — 1

Laird Hunt was born on April 3, 1968, in Singapore. His father was an American banker who moved along with his family in various places such as Amsterdam, London, and elsewhere. After his parents divorced, Hunt was sent to live with his grandmother in Indiana, where he went to the Clinton Central High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University Bloomington in 1989 and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in 1996. He studied French literature at the Sorbonne in 1996.

He was for a time a professor in the Creative Writing program at University of Denver. He currently teaches in Brown University’s Literary Arts Program.

Hunt is the author of eight novels and a collection of short works, including the 2021 National Book Award finalist Zorrie. He has translated several novels from the French, including Oliver Rohe's Vacant Lot (2010) and Stuart Merrill's Paul Verlaine (2010). His works is said to intersect several genres, including experimental literature, exploratory fiction, literary noir, speculative fiction and difficult fiction and include elements ranging from the bizarre, the tragic, and the comic. His influences include Georges Perec, W. G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and the French Modernists. While working on his first novel, Hunt worked in the press office at the United Nations. 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. His fiction and translations have appeared in literary journals such as Conjunctions, McSweeney's, Bomb, Ploughshares, Bookforum, The Believer, Fence, and Zoetrope. For a time, Hunt was editor in the Denver Quarterly.

Hunt lives in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife Eleni Sikelianos, a poet and the grand-grand-daughter of Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos, and their daughter Eva.

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• Weekend Edition, November 13, 2021 • Transatlantica, December 2021 • Harvard Bookstore, February 2021 • The Millions, March 17, 2017 • Issuu, February 11, 2016 • Bookforum, January 18, 2013 • Hobart (Part One), January 1, 2010 • Hobart (Part Two), February 1, 2010