Christine Sneed
Visiting Fiction Writer
Profile
Christine Sneed’s most recent books include Direct Sunlight, Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, The Virginity of Famous Men, and Paris, He Said. She’s also the editor of the short fiction anthology Love in the Time of Time’s Up. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, Ploughshares, New England Review, New York Times, among other periodicals. She’s received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction, an O. Henry Prize, and the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, among other honors, and has been a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, first-fiction category. She teaches for Stanford University Continuing Studies and for Northwestern University, where she is also faculty director of the graduate writing program in the School of Professional Studies. She lives in Pasadena, California.