Lara Vapnyar
Part-time Faculty
lv25@nyu.edu
429 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Wednesday 5:00-6:00
Edited Volumes
2023
Lara Vapnyar, Lynn Freed, and Elizabeth Strout co-edited The O. Henry Prize Stories 100th Anniversary Edition, published by Anchor
Books
2023
Lara Vapnyar's Divide Me by Zero was published by Tin House Books.
Teaching and Research Interests
fiction writing; memoir writing; contemporary immigrant novel; Russian literature
Recent News
Still Here (Hogarth, 2016), a novel by Professor Lara Vapnyar, was reviewed in The New York Times Sunday Book Review on August 9, 2016, and was named by The New York Times to their 100 Notable Books of 2016 list.
Vapnyar’s short story “Waiting for the Miracle,” appeared in the April 18, 2016 issue of The New Yorker.
Vapnyar’s book, The Scent of Pine, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2014. Lara Vapnyar’s short story “Virtual Grave” was published in the Winter 2014 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. Her short story “Katania” was published in the October 14, 2013 issue of The New Yorker.
Courses
2023 Spring
2023 Fall
2022 Spring
Storytelling in the Digital Age
2022 Fall
Writing a SceneWriting a Scene
2021 Spring
Storytelling in the Digital Age
2021 Fall
2020 Spring
