Laird Hunt

Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

Academic Program Affiliation(s): MFA Writing

Biography: Writing. Laird Hunt is the author of a book of short stories, mock parables and histories, The Paris Stories (2000), from Smokeproof Press, and three novels, The Impossibly (2001), Indiana, Indiana (2003) and The Exquisite (2006) all from Coffee House Press. A new novel, Ray of the Star, is forthcoming from Coffee House in September. He is published in France by Actes Sud, and has novels either published or forthcoming in Japan and Italy. His writings, reviews and translations have appeared in the United States and abroad in, among other places, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Bomb, Bookforum, Grand Street, The Believer, Fence, Conjunctions, Brick, Mentor, Inculte, and Zoum Zoum. Currently on faculty in the University of Denver’s Creative Writing Program, he has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. He and his wife, the poet Eleni Sikelianos, live in Boulder, Colorado, with their daughter, Eva Grace.

Phone: 845-758-7481
Website: https://www.lairdhunt.net/
Department: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts