Kristen Arnett

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Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett 2019 Texas Book Festival.jpg
Arnett at the 2019 Texas Book Festival
Born (1980-12-16) December 16, 1980 (age 40)
Orlando, Florida
Alma materRollins College (BA)
Florida State University (MS)
OccupationLibrarian, writer

Kristen Arnett (born December 16, 1980)[1][2] is an American fiction author and essayist. Her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, was a New York Times bestseller.[3]

Early life and education[]

Arnett was born and raised in Orlando, Florida, where she attended Winter Park High School.[4][5][6] She graduated from Rollins College with a bachelor's degree in English and received her master's degree in library and information science from Florida State University. Arnett was a fellow in the Lambda Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices in 2013.[7]

Career[]

Arnett was a librarian at Rollins College and the Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law at Barry University.[8][9] She is a columnist for Literary Hub and was selected as a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute for the spring 2020 semester.[10][11]

Writing[]

Her first collection of short fiction, Felt in the Jaw, was published by and received the 2017 Coil Book Award.[12] Arnett is a self-described "7-Eleven scholar"[9] and celebrated the debut of Felt in the Jaw at a 7-Eleven store in Orlando.[13] The short story collection focuses on living as a lesbian in Florida.[13]

Arnett's debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, which was published by Tin House in June 2019, was a New York Times bestseller and received critical acclaim;[14][15][16][17][18] it was heralded by literary critic Parul Sehgal as her "song of the summer"[19] and by The New Yorker's book critic as one of the best books of 2019.[20] The book features an openly lesbian main character who runs her family's taxidermy shop after her father dies by suicide.[21]

Arnett's forthcoming novel and a collection of short stories will be published by Riverhead Books.[22]

Arnett's stories have appeared in online and print publications including Guernica magazine,[23] The North American Review,[24] Oprah Magazine, and Gay Magazine.[25] Her essays have been published in various venues including The Rumpus,[26] Electric Literature,[27] and Orlando Weekly.[28]

References[]

  1. ^ "'Mostly Dead Things' Author Kristen Arnett On The Weird, Wonderful Magic Of Central Florida". Bustle. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  2. ^ "it's still my birthday, show me your dogs". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  3. ^ "About - kristen arnett". kristenarnett.virb.com. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  4. ^ "Kristen Arnett on Florida, Queerness, and 7-Eleven". PAPER. 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  5. ^ "Kristen Arnett". Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  6. ^ "Kristen Arnett on How She Got Her Start as a Librarian". Literary Hub. 2019-06-21. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  7. ^ "Lambda's Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBT Voices: The 2013 Fellows Reflect | Lambda Literary". Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  8. ^ Rosen, Louis (June 2, 2016). "Welcome, Kristen Arnett!". Barry Law Library. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Boedeker, Hal (May 29, 2019). "Taxidermy enlivens Florida-rich 'Mostly Dead Things'". Orlando Sentinel. I read by the Slurpee machine. I signed books next to the hot dog roller.
  10. ^ "Kristen Arnett". Black Mountain Institute. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  11. ^ "kristen arnett | Literary Hub". Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  12. ^ Press, Alternating Current (December 9, 2017). "2017 Coil Book Award: Kristen N. Arnett's 'Felt in the Jaw'". Medium. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b Williams, John (August 28, 2017). "Stories and Slurpees". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-01.
  14. ^ Cline, Jake. "Review | 'Mostly Dead Things' captures the humor and strangeness of Florida without the easy stereotypes". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  15. ^ Faires, Rosalind (October 23, 2019). "Book Review: Mostly Dead Things". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  16. ^ "Macabre And Irreverent, 'Mostly Dead Things' Is A Satisfying Journey". NPR. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  17. ^ Desk, The Atlantic Culture (2019-12-24). "The 15 Best Books of 2019". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  18. ^ Canfield, David. "'Mostly Dead Things' is very Florida, very gay, and very good: EW review". EW.com. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  19. ^ Sehgal, Parul (2019-05-28). "'Mostly Dead Things,' a Story of Taxidermy, Love and Grief, With Echoes of Past Literary Heroines". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  20. ^ Waldman, Katy. "The Best Books of 2019". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  21. ^ Leiding, Reba (June 2019). "Mostly Dead Things". Library Journal. 144 (5): 101 – via EBSCOhost.
  22. ^ "Book Deals: Week of October 7, 2019". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  23. ^ Arnett, Kristen N. (July 30, 2018). "The Graveyard Game". Guernica. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  24. ^ "Vol. 301, No. 1, WINTER 2016 of The North American Review on JSTOR". www.jstor.org. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  25. ^ Arnett, Kristen (2019-07-02). "Divide and Conquer". Medium. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  26. ^ "Hand-Operated Shearing Instruments". The Rumpus. October 29, 2013. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  27. ^ "The Queer Erotics of Handholding in Literature". Electric Literature. 2017-04-25. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  28. ^ Arnett, Kristen. "Oh thank heaven, today is 7-Eleven Day". Orlando Weekly. Retrieved 2020-05-09.

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