Allegra Hyde - Novelist and Short Story Writer

Salon Conversation: 5:30 (Hallwalls Gallery)
Reading: 7:00pm (Hallwalls Cinema)
Snacks: Pizza and pop for students.
Free and open to the public.

Short story, "Endangered" - https://americanshortfiction.org/endangered/
Short story, "Labor Pains" - https://harpers.org/archive/2023/07/dear-employee-allegra-hyde/

BIO

Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors' Choice selection at The New York Times and a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. Her debut novel Eleutheria was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, and featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Her first story collection, Of This New World, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Hyde has also received four Pushcart Prizes and the O. Henry Prize. Her work has been selected for anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Travel Writing, and Best of the Net. She has received fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Artist Residency, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Smith College.

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