Kristen Arnett
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| Nationality | American |
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| Notable awards | Coil Book Award (2017) |
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Kristen Arnett is a queer fiction author and essayist. Her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, was a New York Times bestseller[1].
Early life and education
Arnett grew up in Orlando, Florida, where she attended Winter Park High School[2]. She graduated from Rollins College with a bachelor's degree in English and received her master's degree in library and information science from Florida State University. Arnett was a fellow in the Lambda Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices in 2013[3].
Career
Arnett was librarian at Rollins College and the Barry University School of Law[4]. She is a columnist for Literary Hub[5] and was selected as a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute for the Spring 2020 semester [6].
Fiction
Arnett's stories have appeared in online and print publications including Guernica magazine[7], The North American Review[8], Oprah Magazine, and Gay Magazine[9]. Her first collection of short fiction Felt in the Jaw was published by Split Lip Press and received the 2017 Coil Book Award[10]. Arnett's debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, which was published by Tin House in June 2019, was a New York Times bestseller and heralded by literary critic Parul Segal as her "song of the summer"[11]. Arnett's forthcoming novel and a collection of short stories will be published by Riverhead Books[12].
Essays
Arnett's essays have been published in various venues including The Rumpus[13], Electric Literature[14], and Orlando Weekly[15].
In the media
References
- ↑ "About - kristen arnett". kristenarnett.virb.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ "Kristen Arnett on How She Got Her Start as a Librarian". Literary Hub. 2019-06-21. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ "Lambda's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices: The 2013 Fellows Reflect | Lambda Literary". Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ Rosen, Louis (2016-06-02). "Welcome, Kristen Arnett!". Barry Law Library. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ "kristen arnett | Literary Hub". Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ "Kristen Arnett". Black Mountain Institute. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ Arnett, Kristen N. (2018-07-30). "The Graveyard Game". Guernica. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ "Vol. 301, No. 1, WINTER 2016 of The North American Review on JSTOR". www.jstor.org. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ Arnett, Kristen (2019-07-02). "Divide and Conquer". Medium. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ Press, Alternating Current (2017-12-09). "2017 Coil Book Award: Kristen N. Arnett's 'Felt in the Jaw'". Medium. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ Sehgal, Parul (2019-05-28). "'Mostly Dead Things,' a Story of Taxidermy, Love and Grief, With Echoes of Past Literary Heroines". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ "Book Deals: Week of October 7, 2019". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Hand-Operated Shearing Instruments". The Rumpus.net. 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ "The Queer Erotics of Handholding in Literature". Electric Literature. 2017-04-25. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
- ↑ Arnett, Kristen. "Oh thank heaven, today is 7-Eleven Day". Orlando Weekly. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
External Links
- Kristen Arnett on twitter
- Kristen Arnett on facebook
- Kristen Arnett on linkedin
- Kristen Arnett (Author of Mostly Dead Things) - Goodreads
- Mostly Dead Things (9781947793309): Arnett ... - Amazon.com
- Kristen Arnett — APL - Ayesha Pande Literary
- Kristen Arnett: How I Write - The Writer - The Writer magazine
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