
Deb Olin Unferth
Author · 9 books
Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novel Barn 8 and the story collection Wait Till You See Me Dance. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, NOON, the New York Times, and McSweeney’s. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a Creative Capital grant, three Pushcart Prizes, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin, she also runs the Pen City Writers, a creative writing program at a penitentiary in southern Texas.
Books

I, Parrot
A Graphic Novel
2017
Likeable
2025

Revolution
The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
2011

Minor Robberies
2007

Barn 8
2020

Vacation
2008

PANK 5
2011

One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box
Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies
2007

Wait Till You See Me Dance
2017