Biography
Eleanor Voss grew up in rural Pennsylvania, the daughter of a librarian and a high school history teacher. She studied literature at Vassar College and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow.
Her debut novel, The Hollow Season, was published in 2016 and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. Her subsequent novels have been praised for their precision of language, emotional depth, and uncanny sense of place.
Eleanor lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters. She teaches in the MFA program at The New School.
Speaking Topics
Eleanor is an in-demand speaker whose talks combine personal storytelling with practical insight:
- The Discipline of Creativity — How writers (and non-writers) build sustainable creative practices
- Finding the Story — Research, memory, and the leap from idea to narrative
- The Power of Specificity — Why precise detail creates universal resonance
Press Kit
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Representation
Literary Agent: Marcus Bell, Bell Literary Agency — marcus@literaryagency.com
Speaking & Events: Dana Cho, Press Office — dana@pressoffice.com