Nell Zink grew up in rural Virginia. She has worked in a variety of trades, including masonry and technical writing. In the early 1990s, she edited an indie rock fanzine. Her writing has also appeared in n+1. Her debut novel, The Wallcreeper, was published in 2014. Her latest novel, Longlisted for a 2015 National Book Award in Fiction is Mislaid (Ecco), a wickedly humorous and sharply observed novel that exposes all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire, through the making and unmaking of one American family. Jonathan Franken writes, “[Zink’s] work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.”

NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2015