Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey is the author of four books: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States, Pew, and Biography of X. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, Vogue, the New York Times and elsewhere. She is a Granta Best of Young American Novelist, a Guggenheim Fellow and the winner of the 2021 New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.
Publications
Catherine Lacey on Granta.com
Fiction | Issue 162
Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
‘Grief has a warring logic; it always wants something impossible, something worse and something better.’
An extract from Biography of X by Catherine Lacey.
Fiction | Granta Books
Pew
Catherine Lacey
‘The church has no thoughts. The church is brick and glass. If they ever slept there, they would see that.’
In Conversation | Granta Books
Catherine Lacey | Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists
Catherine Lacey & Luke Neima
Catherine Lacey discuses voice, characterization and the minute details that bring a story to life
Five Things Right Now | Granta Books
Catherine Lacey | Five Things Right Now
Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Fiction
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Issue 139
The Answers
Catherine Lacey
‘And each time I hit the tarmac I had this terrible feeling that the trip I’d just taken had never even happened, that I’d spent hundreds for a memory I could barely recall.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 139
The Question of Fate
Catherine Lacey
‘The possibility that I’d unwittingly tapped into her fate and used it as fuel for a story sickened me.’
In Conversation | Issue 139
Catherine Lacey | Interview
Catherine Lacey & Louise Scothern
‘It's uncomfortable, at times, to be alive, so I see no reason why a voice in fiction shouldn't be also.’
Fiction | Issue 139
Small Differences
Catherine Lacey
‘Everyone should just sit very still until they reach the calmer waters of later-young-adulthood, that promised land of lowered expectations.’