Creative Writing Faculty: Valerie Sayers

Valerie Sayers is the author of five novels: Who Do You Love and Brain Fever, both named "Notable Books of the Year" by the New York Times Book Review; Due East, which also appeared in five foreign editions; How I Got Him Back; and The Distance Between Us. A film, Due East, was based on Due East and How I Got Him Back. She has received a Pushcart Prize for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship and has served on two NEA literature panels. Her stories, essays, and reviews appear widely, and have been cited as "Notable" and "Distinguished" by, among others, Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.

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Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

E-mail : Valerie.L.Sayers.1@nd.edu