Tracy O'Neill is the author of The Hopeful, for which she was named to the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 and long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize. In 2012, she was awarded the Center for Fiction's Emerging Writers Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, LitHub, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Literarian, and Guernica. She has published nonfiction online in The Atlantic, New Yorker, Bookforum, and Rolling Stone; in Grantland; and in the San Francisco Chronicle. She currently teaches at the City College of New York and is pursuing a PhD at Columbia University.
Soft pants, sweet pups, and the making of a hypnotic debut.
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