Edward Hamlin is the winner of the Nelson Algren Award, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the Nelligan Prize and the Colorado Book Award. Publishers Weekly called his prizewinning short story collection, NIGHT IN ERG CHEBBI, a “memorable read from a writer with considerable talent.” Pulitzer Prize finalist Karen Russell described its stories as “sweeping and intimate and awesomely confident.” About Hamlin’s 2024 debut novel, National Book Award finalist Ben Fountain said: “SONATA IN WAX is a terrific novel—immersive, compelling, smart, the story propelled by a cast of complex, full-bodied characters and the author's absolute mastery of the musical worlds he conjures…I'm knocked flat with admiration for this splendid novel.” Edward Hamlin has published dozens of stories in Ploughshares, Missouri Review, Colorado Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Chariton, the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere, garnering three Pushcart Prize nominations along the way. His work has been shortlisted twice for the Bridport Prize (UK) and has been a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Grace Paley Award, the Narrative Story Prize, the Raymond Carver Award and others. Stories of his have also been performed on stage and published by Audible. A New York native and an accomplished composer, Edward Hamlin spent his formative years in Chicago and now lives in the Colorado foothills. He is represented by Deborah Schneider of Gelfman-Schneider/ICM, deborah@gelfmanschneider.com.