Nora Lange’s debut novel Us Fools was awarded the The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the Heartland Booksellers Award, was named a best book of 2024 by The Boston Globe and NPR, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. An earlier iteration of it was shortlisted for The Novel Prize from New Directions Press. Her story collection, Day Care, was published by Two Dollar Radio in April 2026.

Nora’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, The Believer , BOMB, Hazlitt, Joyland, American Short Fiction, Denver Quarterly, HTMLGIANT. Her project Dailyness was longlisted for the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. She has received fellowships from Brown University and University of Southern California, and will be a Visiting Writer at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She lives in Salt Lake City with her family.