Jami Attenberg

In addition to the courses she's teaching below, Jami will be a featured reader at Happy Hour Reading 6/16: Jami Attenberg, Emily Rapp Black, and Akhil Sharma. (Registration required)

Jami Attenberg has written about food, travel, books, relationships and urban life for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Times, Longreads and others. In 2017, HMH Books (US) and Serpent's Tail (UK) published her novel All Grown Up. In 2019, All This Could Be Yours was published by HMH Books and Serpent’s Tail. Her debut collection of stories, Instant Love, was published in 2006, followed by the novels The Kept Man and The Melting Season. Her fourth book, The Middlesteins, was published in October 2012. It appeared on The New York Times bestseller list, and was published in ten countries in 2013. It was also a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the St. Francis College Literary Prize. A fifth book, Saint Mazie, was published in 2015 in the U.S. and the UK, and in Italy, France and Germany in 2016, and has been optioned by Fable Pictures. She lives in New Orleans, LA.