About

Ethan Rutherford’s fiction has appeared in BOMB, Tin House, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, and The Best American Short Stories.  He is the author of two story collections—Farthest South and The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories—and for these works has been named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, a finalist for the John Leonard Prize and CLMP’s Firecracker Award, received honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and was the winner of a Minnesota Book Award. 

His first novel, North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, was published by A Strange Object / Deep Vellum in March, 2025. It was a finalist for the National Book Award, longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, named a “Best Book of 2025” by Vanity Fair, the Globe & Mail, Lit Hub, and President Barack Obamba.

Born in Seattle, Washington, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota and now teaches Creative Writing at Trinity College.  He lives in Hartford, Connecticut with his wife and two children.