ZZ Packer is the author of the short story collection, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, a PEN/Faulkner finalist and a New York Times Notable Book.

Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Story, Ploughshares, Zoetrope and The Best American Short Stories 2000 and 2004 and have been read on NPR’s Selected Shorts.

Her nonfiction has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Magazine, The American Prospect, Essence, O, The Believer and Salon.  She is a contributor to The Huffington Post, and has appeared several times as a commentator on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and MSNBC.

She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently named one of  America’s Young Innovators by Smithsonian Magazine as well as one America’s Best Young novelists by Granta Magazine.