Nina Shope’s debut novel, Asylum, won the 2020 Dzanc Fiction Prize and was released in May 2022. Her collection, Hangings: Three Novellas (2005), won the Starcherone Books Award. She is the recipient of the Calvino Prize from the University of Louisville, the Jeremy Lake Memorial Fiction Prize from Syracuse University, a residency from the Millay Colony for the Fine Arts, and the Barbara Banks Brodsky Prize from Brown University. Her writing has appeared in LitHub, The Millions, Quarter After Eight, Fourteen Hills, 3rd Bed, Open City, Sleeping Fish, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Her fiction has been anthologized in PP/FF: An Anthology; New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills; and Wreckage of Reason: XXperimental Women Writers Writing in the 21st Century.
