Eva Dunsky

Eva is a writer, teacher, and translator. She has been named a semifinalist for the American Short(er) Fiction Contest and the Driftwood Story Prize, was nominated for the PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and has received grants from Institut Ramon Llull and Columbia University to fund her translations.

As a teacher of students ranging from elementary school to grad school, her pedagogy is grounded in helping people use writing as a tool for sustained critical thinking. Due in part to the overwhelming bleakness of the current moment, she is pretty fanatic about writing as a tool (one of many) for liberation. She can be found popping off in classrooms all over the city and enjoys reading and reviewing books about the promises and pitfalls of modern feminism as it’s perceived across generations.

At Woodward, she will work on her first novel, Anger Makes Me A Modern Girl, about a group of students at a women’s college who come under attack online, forcing them to decide what rhetoric to prioritize and which image to project. She will also continue drafting her second novel, Deeply Morbid.