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Catherine Lacey was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. She is the author of six books, most recently The Möbius Book and Biography of X. Lacey’s debut novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and a winner of the 2016 Whiting Award. Her writing was described as “dreamy and fierce at the same time” by Dwight Garner of The New York Times. Her novel Pew was shortlisted for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize and won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and an award from Lambda for Lesbian Fiction, among other accolades.

Lacey earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University. She has served as the University of Montana’s Kittredge Visiting Writer and the John & Renee Grisham Writer in Residence at The University of Mississippi. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. She currently lives in México City with her husband, poet, essayist, and novelist Daniel Saldaña París.

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