Victor LaValle Follow

Victor LaValle is an acclaimed American writer whose work spans speculative fiction, horror, and literary realism. He earned a BA in English from Cornell University and an MFA from Columbia University LaValle’s debut came with the short‑story collection Slapboxing with Jesus (1999), followed by novels The Ecstatic, Big Machine, The Devil in Silver, The Changeling, and Lone Women 

His novella The Ballad of Black Tom won the Shirley Jackson Award (2016), and The Changeling earned multiple honors including the World Fantasy, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards (2018)  He also authored the graphic novel series Destroyer, which won a Bram Stoker Award (2018) 

LaValle has written essays and reviews for GQ, The Fader, Essence, and The Washington Post. He teaches creative writing at Columbia University and lives in New York with his wife, author Emily Raboteau, and their two children