About

Ted Thompson has been working with writers as a teacher, editor, and manuscript consultant for over a decade. In addition to Longhand, he teaches in the MFA program at Brooklyn College and for Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, and has taught at Amherst College and the Augsburg University Low Residency MFA.

His novel The Land of Steady Habits was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was adapted into a film for Netflix. His stories have been published in American Short Fiction, VQR, Tin House, One Teen Story, Best New American Voices, and others, and was a finalist for the 2021 National Magazine Award in Fiction.

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He's had fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Brush Creek, Writers' Omi, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Truman Capote Trust, and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.