Neverhome (Hunt)

Author Bio
• Birth—April 3, 1968
• Raised—Singapore, San Francisco, The Hague, London, and Indiania, USA
• Education—B.A., Indiana University; M.F.A., Naropa University
• Awards—Anisfield-Wolf Award
• Currently—lives in Boulder, Colorado

Laird Hunt is an American writer, translator and academic. He grew up in Singapore, San Francisco, The Hague, and London before moving to his grandmother's farm in rural Indiana, where he attended Clinton Central High School. He earned a B.A. from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He also studied French literature at the Sorbonne.

Hunt worked in the press office at the United Nations while writing his first novel. He is currently a professor in the Creative Writing program at Denver University. Hunt lives with his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, in Boulder, Colorado.

Hunt is the author of several novels and a collection of short work. His works intersect several genres, including experimental literature, exploratory fiction, literary noir, speculative fiction and difficult fiction. They 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.

He has also translated several novels from French, including Oliver Rohe's Vacant Lot (2010) and Stuart Merrill's Paul Verlaine (2010). He has contributed to many literary publications, including McSweeney's, Ploughshares, Bomb, Bookforum, The Believer, Fence, and Conjunctions and is currently editor of the Denver Quarterly.

Laird is  a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, a two-time finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Fiction, and the winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 9/20/2014.)