Edith Pearlman

Edith Pearlman is the recipient of the 2011 PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of short fiction and the 2011 Wallant Award for fiction considered to have significance for the American Jew. She has published more than 250 works of fiction and nonfiction in national magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. She is the author of four story collections: Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories, a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Story Prize; Vaquita, winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature; Love Among the Greats, winner of the Spokane Fiction Award; and How to Fall, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.