Carolyn Ferrell

Carolyn Ferrell is the author of Dear Miss Metropolitan, which was recently shortlisted for both the PEN Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her first book, a short-story collection Don’t Erase Me, was awarded the 1997 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the John C. Zacharis First Book Award given by Ploughshares, and the Quality Paperback Book Prize for First Fiction. Ferrell’s stories and essays have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2018, edited by Curtis Sittenfeld and Roxane Gay, respectively; The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike; Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present, edited by Gloria Naylor; Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents, edited by Lise Funderburg; and other places. She is the recipient of grants and awards from the Fulbright Association, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Bronx Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Sarah Lawrence College. Since 1996, she has been a faculty member in both the undergraduate and MFA writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New York.