Nina Schuyler

Nina Schuyler is the author of The Translator, winner of the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Award and a finalist for the 2014 William Saroyon International Prize for Writing, and The Painting, named a Best Book by San Francisco Chronicle and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her book, How to Write Stunning Sentences, is a Small Press Distribution bestseller.

Her short stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best American New Voices.

She writes a column for Fiction Advocate, “Stunning Sentences,” and reviews books for The Millions.

• Style in Prose

• San Francisco State University, MFA in Creative Writing, 2004
• Hastings College of the Law, JD, 1997
• Stanford University, BA Economics, 1986

• Winner of the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collection and The Prism Prize for Climate Literature for her book, In this Ravishing World, forthcoming in 2024.

• The Translator — Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction, finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize.

• The Painting — Finalist for the Northern California Book Award.

• Schuyler, N. (Forthcoming, 2024) In this Ravishing World.

• Schuyler, N. (Forthcoming, 2023). Afterword.

• Schuyler, N. (2018). How to Write Stunning Sentences.

• Schuyler, N. (2014). The Translator. New York: Pegasus Books.

• Schuyler, N. (2004). The Painting. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books.