Alena Graedon

Teaches at 92nd Street Y

Alena Graedon’s first novel, The Word Exchange, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Paperback Row pick, and selected as a best novel of 2014 by Kirkus, Electric Literature and Tor. It has been translated into eight languages. Graedon’s nonfiction has been published in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, Tablet, and Guernica, among other publications, and her short fiction has appeared in VICE and Southern Humanities Review. Graedon has received fellowships from MacDowell, The Corporation of Yaddo, The Ucross Foundation, The Jentel Artist Residency, The Lighthouse Works, VCCA, and The Vermont Studio Center. A native of North Carolina, Graedon is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s MFA program.