Lucy Ives

Lucy Ives (born 1980) is an American novelist, poet, and critic.

Born in New York City, Ives graduated from Harvard University with a BA and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA. Ives earned her PhD in comparative literature from New York University.[1]

Ives's long poem Anamnesis (2009) won the Slope Editions Book Prize.[1] In 2013 Ives published a novella, Nineties, her second novella, The Worldkillers, was published in 2014.[2] Orange Roses, a collection of essays and poetry, was published in 2013.[2] Ives's novel Impossible Views of the World (2017) was chosen as a New York Times Editors' Choice and published by Penguin.[1] Her second novel, Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2019. Her first story-collection, Cosmogony, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2021.

Ives has been the recipient of an Iowa Arts fellowship, a MacCracken fellowship, and a Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.[2]