Nell Freudenberger is the author of three novels, Lost and Wanted, The Newlyweds, and The Dissident, and the short story collection, Lucky Girls, which she worked on at MacDowell in 2001 and 2002. It won the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
She’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in the New Yorker, Harpers, The Paris Review, the New York Times, and Nautilus.
Her 2024 novel The Limits, about a biologist studying coral on a South Pacific island and a high school student caring for her nephew on Staten Island during the pandemic, was published by Knopf. She worked on this novel and wrote a short story, "Teamwork," while in residence in 2023.
