Edie Meidav
Called “an American original” by The Daily Beast, Edie Meidav is the author of Kingdom of the Young, a collection of short fiction with a nonfiction coda, as well as these novels: Lola, California (FSG); Crawl Space (FSG); The Far Field: a Novel of Ceylon (Houghton). Her work has been recognized with the Bard Fiction Prize, the Kafka Prize for Best Novel, and annual best books’ lists, and has received support from the Fulbright program, the Howard Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and elsewhere. She is a senior editor at the journal Conjunctions and teaches in the UMass Amherst MFA program, where she founded and advises the Radius MFA project.