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Avigayl Sharp is a writer from Chicago. Her first novel, OFFSEASON, is forthcoming from Astra House (US) and Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) in May 2026. It will be followed by a story collection, ANIMALS AFTER DARK.
Her fiction has appeared in publications including The Paris Review, Granta, and New England Review, and her work has received support from Yaddo, the Granum Foundation, and the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the 2023 DISQUIET Literary Prize, and a 2023–2024 writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Avigayl holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. She is currently based in Germany.
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