Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She has a BA from
Rollins College (2005) and an M.F.A. from
Emerson College (2008). Her stories have been published in ''
The Paris Review,
McSweeney's, BOMB,
Virginia Quarterly Review,
Conjunctions, American Short Fiction
, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train
and One Story''. Her first collection of short stories,
What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was published in 2009, and her second collection,
The Isle of Youth, was published in 2013. Her other books include two novels,
Find Me (2015) and
The Third Hotel (2018), which was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. Van den Berg has also published a chapbook of
flash fiction,
There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights (2012). Van den Berg lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband,
Paul Yoon. She is currently a senior lecturer at
Harvard University in the English Department, where she is also Director of Creative Writing. ==Awards and honors==