Victoria Redel (born 1959) is an American poet and fiction writer who lives in New York City. She is the author of five books of fiction: ''Before Everything'', ''Make Me Do Things'', ''The Border of Truth'', ''Loverboy'' and ''Where the Road Bottoms Out'' and four books of poetry: ''Paradise'', ''Woman Without Umbrella'', ''Swoon'' and ''Already the World''. She has taught at

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and is currently on the faculty of

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. She has two sons.

Awards and honors

Redel has received awards in fiction and poetry including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the

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, th
Fine Arts Work Center
She won th

and the S. Mariela Gable Award for ''Loverboy''. ''Swoon'' was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her novel ''Loverboy'' was a Los Angeles Best Book. The novel was adapted for a feature-length film ('' Loverboy, 2006'') directed by

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and starring

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. Other actors in the film include Oliver Platt, Marisa Tomei, Matt Dillon, and Sandra Bullock.

Background

Redel is a first generation American born into a Jewish family of Belgian-Polish, Romanian and Egyptian descent."Interviews"
at victoriaredel.com Her mother, Natalie Soltanitzky, a noted ballet teacher and Director of the Ballet Guild School of Westchester, was born in

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, coming to New York in 1942 after spending two years in Paris under German Occupation. Her father, Irving Redel, left

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in 1940. He and his parents were among the 86 passengers on the ship the Quanza who were initially refused entry into the United States and Mexico and were about to be returned to Lisbon. The situation of the Quanza became the setting for Redel’s novel ''The Border of Truth''. Victoria Redel is the youngest of three daughters. She grew up in

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, is a graduate of

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and received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. For her short-story collection
Make Me Do Things
', which was released in 2013, she had a cinematic book trailer produced.

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