Pamela Erens

Pamela Erens is the author of Matasha, a novel for readers age 10 to 14, and the forthcoming Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life, a meditation on the classic work by George Eliot. Her previous novels are The Virgins, Eleven Hours, and The Understory. Erens’s books have appeared on Best of the Year lists at NPR, The New Yorker, Kirkus, The New Republic, and Literary Hub and have been named finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books.