Valerie Sayers
Professor
Specialty
Fiction Writing
Degrees
B.A., Fordham University; M.F.A., Columbia University
Profile
Sayers is the author of five novels. Who Do You Love and Brain Fever were named New York Times "Notable Books of the Year." A film, Due East, was based on her novels Due East and How I Got Him Back. She has received a Pushcart Prize for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship and has served on two NEA literature panels. Her stories, essays, and reviews appear widely, and she has appeared on "Notable" and "Distinguished" lists in the New York Times, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Essays.
Selected Publications
Brain Fever. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
The Distance Between Us. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
Who Do You Love. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
How I Got Him Back, or, Under the Cold Moon’s Shine. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Due East. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987.
Contact Information
215 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-7160
vsayers@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~alcwp/