Allegra Hyde

Allegra Hyde is the author of the story collection The Last Catastrophe, an Editors’ Choice selection at The New York Times and a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award. Her debut novel Eleutheria was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize, and featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Her first story collection, Of This New World, won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award.

Hyde has received four Pushcart Prizes and the O. Henry Prize. Her work has also been selected for anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Travel Writing, Best of the Net, and The Best Small Fictions. Her fiction, nonfiction, and humor writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, American Short Fiction, and BOMB, among many other venues. Hyde has received fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Artist Residency, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, the Lucas Artist Residency Program, the Jentel Foundation, The Studios at Key West, VCCA, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and elsewhere.

She is currently working on a novel that weaves together science fiction, autofiction, and historical fiction.