Nicole Cuffy

Nicole Cuffy is the author of O Sinners!, finalist for the Westport Prize for Literature, and Dances, longlisted for the Carol Shields prize for fiction and the PEN/Hemingway award. Cuffy has a MFA from The New School. She is a lecturer at the University of Maryland and American University. Her work can be found in Mason’s Road, The Master’s Review Volume VI (curated by Roxane Gay), Chautauqua, and Blue Mesa Review, and her chapbook, Atlas of the Body, won the Chautauqua Janus Prize and was a finalist for the Black River Chapbook Competition. She is based in D.C.

Books by Nicole Cuffy

O Sinners!

Nicole Cuffy

In this “engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control—and what it takes, ultimately, to find one’s place in the world.

ONE OF THE SEASON’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS: Time, Rolling Stone, Vulture, Men’s Health, WNYC, Electric Lit, Feminist Book Club, Lit Hub

“A gorgeously written literary excavation of belonging and belief.”—Emma Donoghue, The Boston Globe

Dances

Nicole Cuffy