Pamela Erens “The Storyteller’s I”

PAMELA ERENS‘s second novel, The Virgins, was published by Tin House Books in 2013. It was a New York Times Book Review and Chicago Tribune Editors’ Choice and was named a Best Book of 2013 by The New Yorker, The New Republic, Library Journal, and Salon. The novel was a finalist for the John Gardner Book Award. Pamela’s debut novel, The Understory, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Her stories, essays, and criticism have been published in the Chicago Review, Boston Review, New England Review, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The New York Times, and Elle. For many years she was an editor at Glamour magazine.  She lives in New Jersey and in the Catskills.