{"id":5196,"date":"2016-12-16T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:47:27","slug":"laurie-sheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/laurie-sheck\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurie Sheck"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7800\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5196-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/lauriesheck.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/lauriesheck.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/lauriesheck.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5240 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/laurie.png?resize=279%2C201&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/laurie.png?resize=1024%2C739&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/laurie.png?resize=300%2C216&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/laurie.png?resize=768%2C554&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/laurie.png?resize=624%2C450&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/laurie.png?w=1579&amp;ssl=1 1579w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/laurie.png?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/>Laurie Sheck is the author of, most recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/a.co\/gPLrD2u\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Island of the Mad<\/i><\/span><\/a>, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">(December 2016 )<\/span><span class=\"s1\">and <a href=\"http:\/\/a.co\/4SDzQy5\"><i>A Monster\u2019s Notes<\/i><\/a>, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley\u2019s<i>Frankenstein<\/i>, which <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><i>was<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> long-listed for the Dublin Impac International Fiction Prize<\/span><span class=\"s3\">, and named one of the Ten Best Fictions of the Year by Entertainment Weekly ( 2009).<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for <i>The Willow Grove<\/i>, she has been a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s3\">Her recent lyric essays have appeared in The Paris Review,The Atlantic, Granta, and elsewhere.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Her <\/span><span class=\"s3\">poems have<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> appeared in numerous publications including <i>The New Yorker<\/i>, <i>The New York Times<\/i>, <i>The Paris Review<\/i>, and <i>The Nation<\/i>.\u00a0 She has taught at Princeton, CUNY, and Rutgers, and is currently a member of the MFA <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Writing <\/span><span class=\"s1\">faculty at the New School. She lives in New York City. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7zmzaN6sxdA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4O9zQxMhkYY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/lauriesheck.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listLaurie Sheck is the author of, most recently, Island of the Mad, (December 2016 )and A Monster\u2019s Notes, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley\u2019sFrankenstein, which was long-listed for the Dublin Impac International Fiction Prize, and named one of the Ten Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[67,66],"class_list":["post-5196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-writers","tag-new-york-city","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Laurie-Sheck_image.png?fit=695%2C393&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-1lO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}