Atlantic Center for the Arts
your word: 2009 Teen Creative Writing Residency

Application Deadline March 28, 2009 - Notification of acceptance status will be mailed the first week in May.

VICTORIA REDEL, fiction

Redel is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Her latest novel The Border of Truth (Counterpoint 2007) weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter’s awakening to the history and secrets of her father’s survival and loss. It is a 2007 Barnes and Noble Discovery Book. The L.A Times said, “The Border of Truth is such a good novel that it could also be any American’s Story.” Loverboy (2001, Graywolf / 2002, Harcourt), was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. Loverboy was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Library Journal said of Loverboy “Redel writes like an angel about the darkest edge of obsession” Her fiction and poetry have been widely anthologized. Redel’s work has been translated into five languages. Her most recent collection of poems, Swoon (2003, University of Chicago Press), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award.

Redel is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College and teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for The Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center.