| |
| Alethea Black was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College in 1991. Her father was a mathematician, and for a long time she believed her name, the Greek word for truth, was his way of tipping his cap to the idea of absolutes. Then one day her mother overheard her and said, “No, we got your name from a TV show.” (Judd, for the Defense.) Her first published story was chosen by Joan Silber to win the Grand Prize in Inkwell's 2007 Fiction Competition; read it here. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in the Antioch Review, The Chattahoochee Review, the North American Review, and The Saint Ann's Review, and the American Literary Review. She recently won the 2008 Arts & Letters Prize, and was listed as a distinguished story in Best American Short Stories 2008. She lives with her dachshund Zoë in Pawling, NY, where she is working on a novel. |
|
|
