Catherine Lacey ('07) is publishing her first novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing, with Farrar Straus, and Giroux. Lacey (’07) is the recipient of a 2012 NYFA Artists’ Fellowship in Fiction Writing. She has published stories and nonfiction with McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, The Atlantic, 52 Stories, and The Paris Review Daily. In 2010 she co-founded 3B, a cooperative bed-and-breakfast in Brooklyn that she still co-owns and operates. She earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University.

According to Catherine, “The title, Nobody Is Ever Missing, is a line from a John Berryman poem I read in Katie Ford's Modern Poetry class back in 2004…I really do owe so much to my time at Loyola, and specifically to Martin Pousson, for encouraging creativity in those college years.”

David Shields (author of How Literature Saved My Life) describes Nobody Is Ever Missing as "A dense, subtle series of meditations on domestication, estrangement, wildness, above all loss and absence.”