Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most eminent and prolific contemporary literary figures, is the author of fiction, poetry, plays, and criticism. Her more than fifty novels include Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart; Black Water; Mudwoman; Carthage; The Man Without a Shadow; A Book of American Martyrs; My Life as a Rat; and Blindsight. She teaches at Princeton and is a founder of and an editor at The Ontario Review.
Photograph by Dustin Cohen.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Blindsight, a novel excerpt, in Fall 2020
- The Rescue, a novel excerpt, in Spring 2019
- Wanting, a short story, in Winter 2018
- Mud Time, a novel excerpt, in Winter 2017
- Literature as Pleasure, Pleasure as Literature, an essay, in Stories of the Week: 2015–2016
- The Man Without a Shadow, a short story, in Winter 2016
- The Lost Sister: An Elegy, a memoir, in Fall 2015
- Nighthawk: Recollections of a Lost Time, a memoir, in Winter 2015
- The White Cat, a short story, in Winter 2011
- Descending and Ascending, a novel excerpt, in Winter 2014
- In the Region of Ice, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2012–2013
- In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters, an essay, in Fall 2009
- Nightshade, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2009–2010
- Gargoyle, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2008–2009
- Between Us There’s a Secret, a novel excerpt, in Fall 2004
- A Fragmented Diary in a Fragmented Time, a memoir, in Fall 2003
