Deb Olin Unferth grew up in Chicago, but hasn’t stayed put much since. A short list of her past mailing addresses would include apartments in Denver, Birmingham and New York City, along with a number of residences — some undeliverable — in Mexico and Central America. Her lifetime of continent-trotting influenced many of the stories in her first book, Minor Robberies, a collection of short shorts published by McSweeney’s as one part of a three-book box set, One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box (Dave Eggers and Sarah Manguso authored the other two books). Unferth lives in Lawrence, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Kansas. She is a frequent contributor to McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and NOON, and has just completed her first novel.
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