Official Website of the Award-Winning Author of
Little Known Facts and The Virginity of Famous Men
NEW & FORTHCOMING
Please Be Advised:
A Novel in Memos
(now available)
"A delightful grab-bag of a fiction,
American business at its most bonkers, told
entirely via interoffice memoranda."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
Direct Sunlight: Stories
(publication June 15, 2023)
"This hugely impressive collection shows
Sneed's range, humor, and mastery of her
craft--this should be required reading for
aspiring writers." --Booklist
Love in the Time of Time's Up:
Short Fiction Edited
by Christine Sneed
(now available)
"This complex and hotly contemporary collection...reads like a time capsule, sure to help readers make sense of the cultural moment." --Booklist
Available at Bookshop.org, your favorite independent bookstores, Barnes & Noble, & Amazon
Direct Sunlight: Stories
Publication date: June 15, 2023
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Upcoming Events:
1. May 31, 6 PM PT, Christine will serve as J. Ryan Stradal's conversation partner at Chevalier's Books, 133 N. Larchmont, Los Angeles. He'll read from his bestselling new novel Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club!
2. June 14, 6 PM CT, Christine will read from Direct Sunlight: Stories and will be in conversation with fellow novelist Kathleen Rooney at Bookends & Beginnings, 1620 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, IL.
3. June 16, 7 PM CT, Northwestern University Press editor and poet, Marisa Siegel, novelist Randy Richardson, and Christine will read from their new books: Marisa from Fixed Stars, Randy from the novel Havana Hangover, and Christine from Direct Sunlight, at the Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago.
4. June 28, 6 PM PT, Colette Sartor (Once Removed) and Christine will appear together at Chevalier's Books, 133 N. Larchmont, Los Angeles.
5. July 10, 7 PM CT, *virtual event* - Christine and Elizabeth McKenzie will read from their new books, Direct Sunlight and The Dog of the North, hosted by Women & Children First (physical address: 5233 N. Clark Street, Chicago).
6. August 26, 7 PM PT, Yxta Maya Murray (God Went Like That) and Christine will read and discuss their new books at Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles.
BIOGRAPHy
Christine Sneed is the author of the novels Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, Little Known Facts, and Paris, He Said, and the story collections Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry and The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury USA & UK). She is also the editor of the short fiction anthology, Love in the Time of Time's Up (Tortoise Books). Her seventh book, Direct Sunlight, a short story collection, will be published in June 2023 (Northwestern University Press).
Her work has been included in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, ZYZZYVA, New England Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, O Magazine, and many other publications.
Her feature script The Female Gaze was a semifinalist in AMPAS's 2020 Nicholl Fellowship competition. She has written a number other high-placing scripts in the Austin Film Festival, CineStory Feature and TV Pilot competitions, the PAGE Awards, Atlanta Film Festival, Filmmatic, New York International Screenplay Awards, and Screencraft Comedy Feature competitions.
She has received the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, the Chicago Writers’ Association Book of the Year Award twice, the Society of Midland Authors’ Award, an O. Henry Prize, and Ploughshares’ Zacharis Award. She has also been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Chicago Review of Books' Fiction Award. She lives in Pasadena, CA with her partner Adam Tinkham and teaches for the graduate creative writing programs at Northwestern University and Regis University.
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IN THE PRESS
"Impressive. . . hypnotic. . . hard to put down. . . . Little Known Facts is juicy enough to appeal to our prurience but smart enough not to make us feel dirty afterward.... Sneed is such a gifted writer... Her depiction of both proximity to celebrity and celebrity itself had me totally convinced."
CURTIS SITTENFELD,
New York Times Book Review (cover)
Review of Little Known Facts
February 2013
