Sigrid Nunez has published nine novels, including A Feather on the Breath of God, The Last of Her Kind, The Friend, What Are You Going Through, and, most recently, The Vulnerables. Nunez is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize. In France, it was longlisted for the 2019 Prix Femina and named a finalist for the 2019 Prix du Meilleure Livre. It was also a finalist for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. This year, The Friend was named by the New York Times one of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.
She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among the journals to which she has contributed are the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, Threepenny Review,Harper’s, London Review of Books, and the New Yorker. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian-American literature. Her story “The Plan” was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2019. Her essay “Life and Story,” originally published in the Sewanee Review, was selected for The Best American Essays 2023.
Nunez’s work has been published in more than thirty countries. She has taught at Columbia, Princeton, and the New School, and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Boston University, Amherst, Smith, Baruch, Vassar, Syracuse, and the University of California, Irvine, among others. She lives in New York City.