Allegra Hyde

Allegra Hyde is an American writer. She is originally from Peterborough, New Hampshire.[1] She teaches creative writing at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.[2] She has also taught at Oberlin College and Warren Wilson College.[3]

Early life and education

Born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Hyde graduated from ConVal Regional High School.[4] She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College and Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University.[5][2] At Williams College, Hyde studied with Jim Shepard.[6] She received a Fullbright Grant to teach in English in Bulgaria.[7][8][9]

Career

During graduate school, she published a series of short stories titled "Of This New World."[10] The collection received a positive review in The Gazette.[11] Hyde published her debut novel, Eleutheria, in 2022. The New Yorker named Eleutheria a Best Book of 2022 and it also received a positive review in the Los Angeles Times.[12][13] It was also shortlisted for the First Novelist Award and featured on Late Night with Seth Meyers.[2] Her short story collection The Last Catastrophe (2023) was a New York Times Editors' Choice Selection.[2]

Hyde's work has been awarded the Pushcart Prize four times and has appeared in The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Short Stories.[2]

Hyde's influences include Octavia Butler, Julie Otsuka, and Denis Johnson.[14] Much of Hyde's work falls into the category of climate fiction.[15]

Publications

Books

  • Eleutheria (2022)

Short fiction

Non-fiction

References

  1. ^ "Allegra Hyde". MacDowell. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Allegra Hyde". Smith College. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  3. ^ "Allegra Hyde". Literary Cleveland.
  4. ^ "Allegra Hyde to speak". Monadnock Ledger. 2016-12-01. pp. a14. Retrieved 2025-05-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Tenor, Kristin (2 Jan 2025). "Finding Our Shared Humanity in Allegra Hyde's The Last Catastrophe". Story Magazine. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  6. ^ Scarpa, Vincent (20 October 2016). "Allegra Hyde on Seeking a Better World". Electric Literature. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  7. ^ Hyde, Allegra (2015-09-22). "If we could hold it in our hands". Monadnock Ledger. pp. s8. Retrieved 2025-05-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Hyde 2". Monadnock Ledger. 2015-09-22. pp. s9. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
  9. ^ "Milestones: Academics". Monadnock Ledger. 2015-06-11. pp. a12. Retrieved 2025-05-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Nickoloff, Anne (2022-03-27). "Oberlin professor explores climate change in new novel 'Elutheria'". The Plain Dealer. pp. D8. Retrieved 2025-05-19 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Farmer, Laura (2016-10-02). "Collection shows utopias are never as they seem". The Gazette. pp. M8. Retrieved 2025-05-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Briefly Noted: "Constructing a Nervous System," "Serenade," "Vagabonds!," and "Eleutheria."". The New Yorker. No. 16 May 2022. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  13. ^ Domini, John (2022-03-14). "The post-cynical heroine we need". The Los Angeles Times. pp. E3. Retrieved 2025-05-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Ballard, Gabriel (15 Mar 2025). "Smith Creative Writers Reading Series: Allegra Hyde". Erie Reader. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
  15. ^ Sheehan, Michael. "Cli-fi novelist Allegra Hyde to give public reading". SUNY Fredonia. Retrieved 19 May 2025.
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