Debra Jo Immergut has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has been published in over a dozen countries worldwide and has been a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, the New York Times Best Thriller Award, and the Edgar Award for Best Debut Novel. Her essays and stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Narrative, The New York Times, PANK, and Hobart, among others, and she has also published a collection of short fiction. Immergut is a recipient of Michener and MacDowell fellowships, and is long-listed for the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize. She lives in western Massachusetts.
