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Michael Deagler’s debut novel EARLY SOBRIETIES was published in 2024 by Astra House in the US and Hutchinson Heinemann in the UK. The book received the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.

Deagler’s short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a National Magazine Award and an O. Henry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California.

He can be reached at mdeagler (at) gmail (dot) com, or on Twitter @MichaelDeagler. For professional inquiries please contact Samantha Shea at Georges Borchardt, Inc.

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