Shannon Pufahl

Shay O'Brien

For years a freelance music critic, Shannon Pufahl's first foray into fiction became one of 2020's best debut novels. "On Swift Horses" also became one of the Pima County Public Library's Southwest Books of the Year. Pufahl grew up in rural Kansas and now teaches at Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow in Fiction. Her essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books and elsewhere.

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Awards: Lambda literary finalist