Victoria redel biography
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Current City, State, Country
New York, New York, and Heber City, Utah
Birth City, State, Country
Victoria Redel is a first-generation American author of four books of poetry and five books of fiction, most recently Paradise (2022) and the novel Before Everything. Victoria’s work has been widely anthologized, awarded, and translated in twelve languages. Her debut novel, Loverboy (2001) was adapted for feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Redel’s short stories, poetry and essays have appeared in Granta, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Bomb, One Story, Salmagundi, O and NOON among many others. Her first collection of poems, Already the World, was the recipient of the Wick Poetry Award and her second collection, Swoon, was a finalist for the Laughlin award. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Victoria has taught in the creative writing programs at Columbia
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Victoria Redel
American poet and writer (born 1959)
Victoria Redel (born 1959) is an American poet and fiction writer who lives in New York City. She is the author of five books of fiction: Before Everything, Make Me Do Things, The Border of Truth, Loverboy and Where the Road Bottoms Out and four books of poetry: Paradise, Woman Without Umbrella, Swoon and Already the World. She has taught at Columbia University, Vermont College and is currently on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. She has two sons.
Awards and honors
[edit]Redel has received awards in fiction and poetry including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center. She won the Tom and Stan Wick Poetry award for Already the World and the S. Mariela Gable Award for Loverboy. Swoon was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award.
Her novel Loverboy was a Los Angeles Best Book. The novel was adapted for a feature-length film
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Victoria Redel
Victoria Redel was born in New York, New York, on April 9, 1959, a first-generation American of Belgian, Egyptian, Polish, Romanian, and Russian nedstigning. Redel grew up in Scarsdale, New York, and later attended Dartmouth College, where she graduated with a grad in visual arts in 1980. She also studied for an MFA in poetry at Columbia University.
Redel is the author of three poetry collections: Woman Without Umbrella (Four Way Books, 2012); Swoon (University of Chicago Press, 2003); and Already the World (Kent State University Press, 1995). She is also the author of kvartet books of fiction, including the award-winning novel Loverboy (Graywolf Press, 2001), which was adapted into a feature bio in 2005.
In her review of Woman Without Umbrella, Carolyn Forché writes,
Woman Without Umbrella braves the perilous world of the present in allegoricallyrics of unexpected love, wild survival, diasporic estrangement. These are poems of gratitud