Eve Ottenberg

Eve Ottenberg’s novel, Dead in Iraq, was published in November 2008 by the Plain View Press. She has also published three novels, The Unblemished Darlings, a comedy about a group of bumblers with a get-rich-quick scheme, Glum and Mighty Pagans, a comedy about real estate in New York City and The Widow’s Opera, a dark novel about murder and betrayal set in Manhattan in the 1950s. She has written four other novels and a book-length collection of short stories, as yet unpublished. She gave a reading from Glum and Mighty Pagans at the invitation of PEN. Her fiction was previously represented by the literary agent, Candida Donadio, who has since, unfortunately, passed away. She has written a weekly column, “Hard Times” for The Village Voice, about the politics of housing in Manhattan. She also covered the criminal courts for the Voice. Her book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Nation, The New Yorker’s “In Brief” section, The Washington Post, The Washington City Paper and many other venues. She has published articles in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Elle, Working Mother and other magazines and newspapers and has worked as an editor at several publications. She has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland. She is married, has three children and resides in Maryland, where she is a school library media specialist.