Called "an American original", Edie Meidav writes books and plays, and works in playback and other forms of theater. Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman, Big Other Fiction Prize, and having received support from the Lannan, Howard, Whiting, Fulbrights (Sri Lanka, Cyprus), and being listed as an editors' pick/best of the year by NY Times, L.A. Times, and elsewhere. Canadian-born, she is a senior editor at the literary journal Conjunctions, and teaches in the MFA at UMass Amherst and in the Warren Wilson MFA. She has judged for PEN/Bingham, Yaddo, Massachusetts Cultural Council and elsewhere, and her work is interested in exile, diaspora, wartime memory, hope.