Nell Zink

NELL ZINK grew up in the Tidewater region of Virginia. She did a variety of service and administrative jobs before becoming a professional novelist at age 50. Before then, her publications were confined to an indie rock fanzine and short-lived blog, Animal Review. Her books to date include The Wallcreeper, Mislaid, Private Novelist (two novellas written for her friend Avner Shats), Nicotine, Doxology, and Avalon. Three became New York Times notable books, and one was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her writing has appeared in n+1, Granta, and Harper’s. In 2022, she served as the Friedrich Dürrenmatt Professor of World Literature at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She lives near Berlin, Germany.