Valerie Sayers
Fiction
Valerie Sayers is the author of a collection of short stories and six novels. Her most recent novel, The Powers, explores baseball, pacifism, and 1941 New York in parallel narratives of prose and photography. Her novels Who Do You Love and Brain Fever were both named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Sayers’s stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Commonweal, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Image, Witness, and Prairie Schooner, and have been included in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Her literary prizes include a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes for fiction. She is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
