Sigrid Nunez is an accomplished American author, well-known for her works of literary fiction, adult fiction, historical, memoir, contemporary, dystopia, fantasy, science fiction, and war stories. She has written and published a total of seven novels, including "A Feather on the Breath of God" and "The Last of Her Kind." Nunez has also contributed to numerous literary journals and magazines, such as The Paris Review, The NY Times, Tin House, The Believer, The NY Times Book Review, McSweeney's, and The Harper's.
Nunez was born in New York City, the daughter of a German mother and a Chinese-Panamanian father. She drew on her parents' lives for her first novel, "A Feather on the Breath of God," and went on to write six more novels, including "The Last of Her Kind," "Salvation City," and "The Friend." She is also the author of "Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag." Nunez's work has been featured in several anthologies, including four volumes of Pushcart Prize and four anthologies of Asian American literature.
Throughout her career, Nunez has received numerous awards and honors, including the Whiting Writer's Prize, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, a Rome Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has also been awarded the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. Nunez has taught at several prestigious institutions, including Columbia, Princeton, Boston University, and the New School. She has also been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Amherst, Smith, Baruch, Vassar, and the University of California, Irvine, among others. Nunez has been on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and several other writers’ conferences across the country. She currently lives in New York City.