Pamela Erens

Pamela Erens is the author of three novels for adults, The Virgins, Eleven Hours, and The Understory; the middle grade novel Matasha; and Middlemarch and the Imperfect Life, a meditation on the classic work by George Eliot. She has been a finalist 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 the New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Slate, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Los Angeles Review of Books.