Laura van den Berg
Instructor
About Laura
Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves (2009), a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Award, and The Isle of Youth (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013). A New York Times Editors’ Choice, The Isle of Youth was named a Best Book of 2013 by NPR, Amazon, The Boston Globe, The New Republic, O, The Oprah Magazine, and The Huffington Post. A novel, Find Me, is forthcoming from FSG in 2015. Laura currently lives in the Boston area. For more about Laura, please visit: www.lauravandenberg.com