Award winning novelist and Writing alum Sigrid Nunez '75 is set to publish her first collection of short stories this summer with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. It Will Come Back to You will contain thirteen short stories from her three decades of writing. The stories, tracing her career, showcase her range as a writer.
Already, the collection has been listed by Lithub as one of the most anticipated books of 2026. Oprah Daily has also hailed the book as one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2026.
Called a "writer of uncommon talent" by The New York Times, Nunez is known for her unadorned style and ability to move "from the momentous to the mundane."
“Nunez’s prose itself comforts us," said the Times. "Her confidence and direct style uplifts—the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence.”
“Nunez has exhibited a gift for storytelling forms that smuggle dark matter into books, which nonetheless, proceed with bright, good humor," said The New York Times Magazine.
Nunez has published nine novels and is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. The Friend, a New York Times bestseller, won the 2018 National Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize, was longlisted for the 2019 Prix Femina étranger, and listed by The New York Times among the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. Nunez’s other honors and awards include a Whiting Award, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, Threepenny Review, Harper’s, and London Review of Books. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies, including four Pushcart Prize volumes and four anthologies of Asian-American literature. Her work has been published in more than thirty-five countries. Nunez has taught at Columbia, Princeton, and the New School, and has been a visiting writer or writer in residence at Boston University, Amherst, Smith, Baruch, Vassar, Syracuse, and the University of California, Irvine, among others. She lives in New York City.
It Will Come Back to You will be published July 14, 2026.
