Victoria Redel
About the author
Victoria Redel has written four books of poetry, most recently Paradise; her last novel, Before Everything, was published in 2017. Her short stories, poetry and essays have appeared in Granta, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Bomb, One Story, Salmagundi, O, and NOON among many others.
She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center. She is a professor in the graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.
Also by Victoria Redel
Novels:
Before Everything
The Border of Truth
Loverboy
Short Fiction:
Make Me Do Things
Where the Road Bottoms Out
Poetry:
Paradise
Woman Without Umbrella
Swoon
Already the World
Praise for I Am You:
‘A stunning accomplishment.’ Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Day and The Hours
‘Victoria Redel masterfully evokes the rich period of Golden Age Amsterdam and the centrality of its artists…. It is spellbinding, wonderfully atmospheric, and impossible to forget’ Sarah Jessica Parker, SJP Lit
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"As a child, it was an exciting and disturbing revelation that everyone also had an interior life of thoughts and dreams, wishes and disturbances. It still fascinates me, and writing allows me to imagine empathetically into the lives of others. To make sense of being alive. I love to write from a place of jeopardy, from a point of discomfort and disequilibrium, and then to see how, from that place, the human spirit thrives and finds meaning."
Victoria Redel