Stellar Alumni Reading Series: Allegra Hyde

The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU presented a reading by two of its star graduates: poet Oliver de la Paz (MFA 1999) and fiction writer Allegra Hyde (MFA 2015). The event took place on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 7 p.m. in Ross-Blakley Hall (RBHL), room 196 on ASU's Tempe campus.
Allegra Hyde is the author of three books of fiction: the story collection "Of This New World," which won the John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award; the novel "Eleutheria," which was a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Prize; and the collection "The Last Catastrophe," which was named an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times.
Hyde’s stories, essays, and humor pieces have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, BOMB, and other venues. She has received four Pushcart Prizes, and her work has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. She has received fellowships and grants from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, The Elizabeth George Foundation, MacDowell, the Jentel Foundation, the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Oberlin College.