Delaney Nolan

Delaney Nolan is the author of Happy Bad (2025, Astra House), her debut novel, which received a starred review from Kirkus. Her fiction has appeared in Electric Literature, Guernica, Indiana Review, Oxford American, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and has been chosen as a notable for Best American Essays. She received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, and a Fulbright Fellowship in fiction. An investigative journalist for The Lens in New Orleans, her reporting has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, Sierra Magazine, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, Mother Jones, and elsewhere.