Alethea Black was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard in 1991. Her debut story collection, I Knew You’d Be Lovely (Broadway, 2011), was chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program and as Book of the Week on Oprah.com. A finalist in Narrative’s Spring 2009 and Winter 2011 Story Contests, and the winner of the 2008 Arts & Letters Prize, Black lives in LA County, California.
Photograph by Ian Lennart Surraville.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- How to Lose Everything in Twelve Easy Steps, a short story, in Winter 2017
- Essay to Be Read at 3 a.m., an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2011–2012
- The Only Way Out Is Through, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2009–2010