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Virginia Pye's story collection Shelf Life of Happiness won the 2019 IPPY Gold Medal for Short Fiction and her two historical novels set in China, Dreams of the Red Phoenix and River of Dust, also received literary awards. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is Fiction Editor at Pangyrus and has taught writing at NYU, UPenn, and at GrubStreet Writing Center in Boston. www.virginiapye.com
"""An engrossing and empowering historical novel of liberation that reminds us, with deep resonance, of the many ways in which we are still not free.""--Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men ""The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann is a captivating and delicious novel."" --Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field ""Virginia Pye has written a novel as full of vital ideas about truth, progress and how to live with intention as it is with wild romps and charming encounters."" --Elizabeth Graver, author of Kantika ""Virginia Pye's novel invites us into a distant era that--in its depiction of the challenges faced by women of letters --seems hauntingly familiar. But Victoria Swann persists--and prevails! The story of her Undoing is generous, fierce, and inspiring."" --Jennifer Finney Boylan, Co-author (with Jodi Picoult), MAD HONEY"
