History of Wolves (Fridlund) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
• Education—M.F.A., Washington University; Ph.D., University of Southern California
• Awards—Mary McCarthy Prize; McGinnis-Ritchie Award
• Currently—lives in Ithaca, New York


Emily Fridlund grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned an M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missour, and holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California.

Fridlund's fiction has appeared in a variety of journals, including Boston Review, Five Chapters, New Orleans Review, New Delta Review, Chariton Review, Portland Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly.

Her collection of stories, Catapult, was a finalist for the Noemi Book Award for Fiction and the Tartts First Fiction Award. It won the Mary McCarthy Prize and was published in 2017. The opening chapter of History of Wolves was published in Southwest Review and won the 2013 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction.

Fridland teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, part of the Finger Lakes region of New York State. (From the publisher.)