Laurie Sheck is the author of three novels and five books of poems, one of which was a finalist for the Pulitzer prize. Her novel, A Monster's Notes, was longlisted for the Dublin Impac International Fiction Prize and was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 best fictions of the year.
Sheck is a 2023 recipient of a Creative Capital Literature Award. Her most recent novel, Cyborg Fever, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in June 2025.
Her poems and essay-poems have appeared in the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Granta, and the Atlantic online, among other publications. She has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the NYPL, and has been a Guggenheim fellow. She teaches in the M.F.A. writing program at The New School.
At MacDowell, Sheck worked on a new collection of poems, a continuation and revisiting of the project begun in her fifth book of poems, Captivity (Knopf, 2007).
