Valerie Sayers

Fiction Writer

South Bend, IN

Indiana US

Email:

vsayers@nd.edu

Website:

nd.edu/~vsayers/index.html

Author's Bio

My new novel, The Powers, featuring Joe DiMaggio, Dorothy Day, and Walker Evans, is composed in parallel narratives of prose and photography. I'm interested in the way artists act (or don't act) as moral witnesses, and how they formalize their responses to what Susan Sontag calls "the suffering of others." Five previous novels have recently been reissued by Northwestern University Press.

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:

Pushcart Prize Anthology (Pushcart Press, 2005)

Books:

The Powers (Northwestern University Press, 2013)

Brain Fever (Doubleday, 1996)

The Distance Between Us (Doubleday, 1996)

Journals:

Prizes won:

Pushcart Prize, NEA fellowship in fiction

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Beaufort

Raised in:

Beaufort, SC

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Last update: Mar 08, 2015