Larry Woiwode is the author of two short story collections, a book of poetry, and five novels, including Beyond the Bedroom Wall, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and The Paris Review, among others. More recently, he published his second memoir, A Step From Death, and a collection of essays, Words Made Fresh. Over the course of his several-decade writing career, Woiwode has earned several awards, including the Aga Khan Prize for short fiction, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Medal of Merit from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship. He is currently Writer in Residence at Jamestown College in North Dakota, and also serves as the state’s Poet Laureate, a position he has held since 1995. He lives in rural North Dakota, where he raises registered quarterhorses.

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