Paula Bomer
Paula Bomer is the author of the novels The Stalker, Tante Eva, and Nine Months; the story collections Inside Madeleine and Baby and Other Stories; and the essay collection Mystery and Mortality.
Her work has appeared in BOMB, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mississippi Review, The Cut, and other publications. She grew up in South Bend, Indiana, and has lived in Brooklyn for more than thirty years.
“Paula Bomer shows us once again why she’s one of the boldest, most intense but also most precisely observant and perversely funny novelists working today.”
“Reading Baby is like being attacked by a rabid dog and feeling grateful for it. This is some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.”
“Dysfunctional doesn't begin to describe the marriages in this brilliant, brutally raw debut collection.”
“Phenomenal.”
“Paula Bomer's writing is dark, sharp … In an interview last year, writer Jenny Offill called it ‘a secret handshake among new mothers.’”
“Bomer offers her characters no outs—only the creeping sense that they’re doomed to swing forever between futile attempts at self-determination.”
“Brilliant, disturbing, and hilarious … The final pages … will move readers with their unlikely and ultimately transcendent beauty.”
“Shocking … Beautifully executed. … This is, in part, a darkly funny novel, and Bomer walks a fine line brilliantly — the moments of humor don’t detract from the seriousness of the themes.”
“The Stalker takes a big swing and knocks it out of the park … I loved it so much. Just a brutal, miserable, incredible book.”
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