Victoria Redel's recent novel, Loverboy, has brought both high praise and widespread public attention to this acclaimed author of poetry (Already the World) and short fiction (Where the Road Bottoms Out). The winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize and selected as Book of the Month by Quality Paperback Book Club, Loverboy recounts an obsessive mother's mounting madness. "In prose at once lyrical and chillingly realistic, [Redel] catches the reader up in a tightening circle of the fleeting delights and accumulating dangers of her misguided intimacy," writes ELLE.
"Hopefully I write something worthy of being read, and it endures. The only way of doing that is by being fearless," she says. The daughter of a Polish-Belgian father and a Romanian mother, Ms. Redel is a native of Scarsdale who now lives in New York City and teaches at Vermont College and Sarah Lawrence College.
Lynn Sharon Schwartz's newest books are the witty novel, In the Family Way, An Urban Comedy, and Face to Face, a collection of humorous and insightful personal essays that picks up where her delightful memoir, Ruined by Reading, left off. Her earlier novels are Rough Strife (nominated for a National Book Award for First Novel), Balancing Acts, Disturbances in the Field, Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), and The Fatigue Artist. She is also the author of two collections of stories, The Melting Pot and Other Subversive Stories, and Acquainted With the Night, and she is the winner of the 1991 PEN Renato Poggioli Award for her translation from Italian of Liana Millu's Smoke Over Birkenau.
Ms. Schwartz has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She has taught at writing programs throughout the United States and abroad, and her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, the O. Henry Prize Stories, and many other anthologies.
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The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by grants from the Bydale Foundation and the Gannett Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.