12/08/2026
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Lucy Ives’ Cosmogony, first appearing in Conjunctions:74, Grendel’s Kin, The Monsters Issue.
Lucy Ives is the author of three novels: Impossible Views of the World, published by Penguin Press and selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World, published by Soft Skull Press and also a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; and Life Is Everywhere, published by Graywolf Press and a best book of 2022 with The New Yorker and the Seattle Times.
Her short fiction is collected in Cosmogony (Soft Skull Press, 2021). In spring 2020, Siglio Press published The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader, the first definitive anthology of poet-architect Gins’s poetry and prose, edited and with an introduction by Ives.
Ives’s writing has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, The Baffler, The Believer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, frieze, Granta, Harper’s, Lapham’s Quarterly, n+1, The New York Times Book Review, The Paris Review, and Vogue, among other publications.
A graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Ives holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. For five years she was an editor with the online magazine Triple Canopy. She was the 2023–25 Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice in Literary Arts at Brown University and received a 2018 Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
A book of essays, An Image of My Name Enters America, was released by Graywolf Press in October 2024 and won the 2024 Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction.
New books are forthcoming from Siglio Press and Graywolf Press in 2026.
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