Catherine Lacey

Short Biography

Catherine Lacey (born April 9, 1985) Tupelo, Mississippi USA is an American writer.CareerLacey's first novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dwight Garner, in The New York Times, called her prose "dreamy and fierce at the same time." Time Out New York named it "the (hands down) best book of the year." It also made The New Yorker′s list for the best books of 2014. It has been published in Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French, and German. The novel won the 2015 Late Night Library Debutlizer and was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2016, Lacey won a Whiting Award for her fiction.In 2017 Lacey was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel, "The Answers" was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It received several positive reviews and comparisons to Don Delillo and Margaret Atwood. LifeLacey won a 2012 Artists' Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and wrote her first novel while running a cooperative bed and breakfast in Brooklyn. She has taught at Columbia University in The School of the Arts, the University of Montana, and The University of Mississippi. She currently resides in Chicago, IL.