Sunlit Night (Dinerstein)

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1987-88
• Where—New York, New York, USA
• Education—B.A., Yale; M.F.A., New York University
• Currently—lives in Brooklyn, New York City, New York


Rebecca Dinerstein is the author of Lofoten (2012), a bilingual English-Norwegian collection of poems, and The Sunlit Night (2015), her debut novel. She received her B.A. from Yale and her M.F.A. in Fiction from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow.

Upon receving her B.A., Dinerstein traveled to a Norwegian artist's colony where she stayed for a year to write poetry. The colony was located on the site of an abandoned asylum for the insane—in Lofoten—an archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. “I wanted to go as far north as I could,” she has said. Lofoten became the title of her poetry collection, as well as the setting of her novel. Dinerstein now lives in Brooklyn, New York City. (Adapted from the publisher and The Telegraph.)

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