Deb Olin Unferth

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American short-story writer and novelist. She is the author of a collection of stories, Minor Robberies, and a novel, Vacation, both published by McSweeney's.

Her stories have appeared in Harper's, Fence, AGNI and other magazines. She is a frequent contributor to Noon. In 2009 she received a Creative Capital Grant from the Warhol Foundation and was also the recipient of the Cabell First Novelist Award for Vacation.[1] She also has received a Pushcart Prize.[2]

Unferth currently teaches creative writing at Wesleyan University.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 1,248 ratings · 285 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Vacation 3.64 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War 3.55 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies by Sarah Manguso, Dave Eggers, Deb Olin Unferth 4.07 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Apocalypse Reader by Justin Taylor (Editor), Grace Aguilar, Steve Aylett 3.38 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Open Face Sandwich, 1 by Alan Bajandas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ariana Reines (Goodreads Author), Deb Olin Unferth 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Pear Noir! (#2) by Daniel Casebeer (Editor), Molly Gaudry (Goodreads Author), Brandon Scott Gorrell (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings	My rating:
	Donne e uomini, e altre storie d'amore by Joyce Carol Oates, Roddy Doyle, Deb Olin Unferth 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:

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“It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.”
― Deb Olin Unferth, Vacation

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“You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want.”
― Deb Olin Unferth, Vacation

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“Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.”
― Deb Olin Unferth, Vacation

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