Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novel Barn 8, the graphic novel I, Parrot, and the memoir Revolution, finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Published in Harper’s, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, and McSweeney’s, she received a Guggenheim fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. An associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin, she also directs the Pen City Writers creative-writing program at a south Texas penitentiary. 

Event: The Sentences That Create Us: Writing Through and Beyond Prison