American novelist
Sandra Novack (born 1972) is an American writer of a novel and short stories. Her debut novel, Precious, was a Booklist Top 10 First Novels of 2009.[1]
Early life and education
Novack was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1972, to Joanne Novack, a court systems operator at Lehigh County Courthouse, and Joseph Novack, a millwright at Bethlehem Steel.
In 2003, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, Vermont.[2]
Career
Novack's short stories have been published in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Descant, and Chattahoochee Review.
Stephen King named Novack's story "Memphis" a "Distinguished Story" in The Best American Short Stories, published in 2007.[3] She has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize, and her nonfiction work "Hunk" was nominated as a runner-up for the 2006 Iowa Review Award,[4] and she is a recipient of the 2010-2011 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship[5] and 2011 Illinois Arts Council grant.[6]
Her short story collection, Everyone But You, was published by Random House in 2011.[7] Her work has been translated into Dutch.[8]
Personal life
Novack lives in Oak Park, Illinois.[9]
