he collaborated with on two books, married, and later divorced. Ball and the writer Catherine Lacey were partners from 2016 to 2021. Ball has lived since 2007 in Chicago. He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he teaches courses on lying, ambiguity, dreaming, and walking. Works Poetry March Book. Verse. (New York, NY: Grove Press, 2004) The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008 (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011) Novels Samedi the Deafness. Novel. (New York: Vintage, 2007) The Way Through Doors. Novel. (New York: Vintage, 2009) The Curfew. Novel. (New York: Vintage, 2011) Silence Once Begun. Novel. (New York: Pantheon, 2014) A Cure for Suicide. Novel. (New York: Pantheon, 2015) How to Set a Fire and Why. Novel. (New York: Pantheon, 2016) Census. Novel. (New York: Ecco, 2018) The Divers' Game. Novel. (New York: Ecco, 2019) The Children VI Novel. (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sigilo 2022) Short fiction Vera & Linus. Stories. With Thórdís Björnsdóttir. (Reykjavík: Nyhil, 2006) Parables & Lies. Prose. (Lincoln, NE: The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2007). Also included in The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008. Pieter Emily. Novella serialized in Guernica Magazine (2009). Also included in The Village on Horseback: Prose and Verse, 2003-2008. The Lesson. Novella. (New York: Vintage, 2016) Deaths of Henry King. Stories. With Brian Evenson, Lilli Carré. (New York: Uncivilized, 2017) Nonfiction Notes on My Dunce Cap. Nonfiction. (Brooklyn: Pioneer Works Press, 2016) Sleep, Death's Brother. Nonfiction. (Brooklyn: Pioneer Works Press, 2017) Memoir Autoportrait. Memoir. (Catapult, 2022) Drawings Og svo kom nóttin, Drawings. With Thórdís Björnsdóttir. (Reykjavík: Nyhil, 2006) Awards Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, 2018, for the novel, The Children Six Guggenheim Fellowship, 2016 Creative Capital Award, 2016 Granta Best Young American Novelists 2017 Longlisted for the 2015 National Book Awards for A Cure for SuicideThe Illinois Author of the Year for 2015: Illinois Association of Teachers of English National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 2014 The Plimpton Prize for the story The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr: Paris Review, 2008 2018 Gordon Burn Prize for Census Notes References The New Yorker: "But He Confessed." Review of Silence Once Begun. February 2014. Publishers Weekly: Review of Vera & Linus. October 2006. Reykjavik Grapevine, "A Deep Strong Hope in Its Core" Profiled with Thordis Bjornsdottir following publication of Vera & Linus. Issue 15, 22 September—5 October 2006. Frettabladid, "Natturulega