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

• "Naples". North American Review. 299 (1). 29 Apr 2014.
• Hyde, Allegra (23 September 2014). "Bury Me". The Missouri Review. 37 (3): 50–60. doi:10.1353/mis.2014.0054.
• "The Touch". Hobart Pulp. 4 Dec 2013.
• "Acid". Gulf Coast. 26 (1). 2024.
• "Syndication". Nashville Review. 1 Dec 2014.
• "Issue 36". Passages North (36). 2015.
• Hyde, Allegra (2015). "Shark Fishing". New England Review. 35 (4): 83–100. doi:10.1353/ner.2015.0003.
• "Delight®". Black Warrior Review. 42 (2). 2016.
• "The Future Consequences of Present Actions" (PDF). The Gettysburg Review. 29 (1): 21–46.
• "Endangered". American Short Fiction. 4 May 2017.
• "Loving Homes for Lost & Broken Men". Kenyon Review (Sep/Oct 2017). 2017.
• "Adjustments". TriQuarterly (155). 14 Jan 2019.
• "Afterglow". Guernica. 14 May 2020.
• "Aphorisms for the Anthropocene". The New Yorker. 24 Jun 2022.
• "The Future Is a Click Away". BOMB. 21 Nov 2022.
• Hyde, Allegra (2023). "Democracy In America" (PDF). The Massachusetts Review. 64 (1): 80–100. doi:10.1353/mar.2023.0013.
• "Mobilization". Story (16). 2023.
• "Allegra Hyde". Conjunctions (Spring 2023). 2023.
• "Labor Pains". Harper's Magazine. No. 80. 2023.

Non-fiction

• "A Year in Reading". The Millions. 2022.
• "SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW: A Search for Transcendence & Annihilation in New Zealand's Hippie Paradise". The Rumpus. 11 Oct 2022.
• "What Makes a Great Opening Line?". Literary Hub. 9 Mar 2022.
• "8 Utopian Books for Dystopian Times". Electric Literature. 7 Mar 2022.
• "These Walls Won't Stop Talking". Poets & Writers. 14 April 2022.
• ""The Contagious Collective Epiphany": On Climate Change, Social Change, and the Right to Vote". Kenyon Review (Mar/Apr 2021).
• "Imagine All the People: The Case for Utopian Writing in the Age of Trump". Tin House. 19 Apr 2017.
• "Let The Devil Sing". The Threepenny Review (Spring 2017). 2017.
• "Lowry Hill". The Adroit Journal (19). 2017.