Writer; and Jones Lecturer of Creative Writing, Stanford University, California
Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction - Class of Spring 2017
Molly Antopol is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where she now teaches writing as Jones Lecturer in Fiction. She is the 2013 recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” award to promising young writers, and she spent the 2015-2016 year as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard University. Her writing has appeared on NPR’s “This American Life” and in many magazines and journals, and won a 2015 O. Henry Prize. Antopol holds an MFA from Columbia University and BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her debut collection, The UnAmericans (W.W. Norton, 2014) is a collection of diverse stories, set in the US, Europe, and Israel. Published in seven countries, it was nominated for the National Book Award and won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. It was a finalist for many prizes, including the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, California Book Award, and the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.
Academy Activities
15
Jul
17
Reading at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Before the After Party
Writer Molly Antopol reads from her book The UnAmericans and discusses her novel-in-progress, The After Party, with her translator, Patricia Klobusiczky, and actress Katharina Marie Schubert.
10
May
17
The US Embassy Literature Series
Reading from Her Novel-in-Progress, The After Party
Writer and fiction fellow Molly Antopol reads from her work and discusses the research she’s undertaking in her new novel, The After Party.