About the Author
Laurie Sheck is the author of A Monster’s Notes, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 Best Fictions of the year, and long-listed for the Dublin Impac International Fiction Prize. She is also the author of the novel Island of the Mad, and five books of poems including The Willow Grove, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Creative Capital Foundation, among others, she has also been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Her work has appeared widely in such publications as The New Yorker and The Paris Review. She lives in New York City.
Additional Praise for Laurie Sheck
A Monster’s Notes was chosen by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year, and was long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC International Fiction Prize. It was chosen by Amazon as one of its “Significant Seven,” and was one of the most widely reviewed books nationally at the time of publication. Kirkus, in a starred review, called it “Utterly astonishing and not to be missed.” Bill Goldstein of NBC Today described it as “An intellectual phantasmagoria, a magnificent book,” and The New Yorker called it “A provocative metaphor for spiritual and technological crisis.” Sheck’s fiction Island of the Mad received endorsements from Meghan O’Rourke, Lewis Hyde, Junot Diaz, and Jayne Anne Phillips. Her book of poems, The Willow Grove, was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Format: Paperback
Published: June 2025
ISBN: 9781961209268