Grant Ginder

Grant Ginder is a novelist, editor, and writing professor. He was born and raised in Orange County, California, which is a fact that he’d prefer not to discuss, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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After receiving his BA in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, Grant served as an editor and speechwriter for former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta, at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC. In 2008, he moved to New York to attend NYU’s graduate creative writing program, where he studied under Colson Whitehead, Junot Diaz, and Jonathan Safran Foer, and earned his MFA in fiction in the spring of 2011. Upon graduating, Grant joined the literary agency Kuhn Projects (now Aevitas Creative Management), where he worked as an editor and agent, helping to develop and champion novels and non-fiction projects by writers such as Robin Givhan, Joyce Maynard, Mark Braude, Emily Nunn, Bob Mankoff, and Paul Rudnick. In the fall of 2012, Grant received an offer to return to NYU and join the undergraduate Expository Writing Program, where he currently serves as a Clinical Associate Professor. In addition to teaching at NYU, Grant has also led numerous fiction workshops with Catapult and frequently gives craft lectures to creative writing programs and conferences.

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Grant’s work as a writer spans five novels, including Let’s Not Do That Again (Henry Holt and Co, 2022) and The People We Hate at the Wedding (Flatiron Books, 2017), which was adapted into a motion picture starring Allison Janney, Kristen Bell, and Ben Platt. Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, will publish his sixth novel, So Old, So Young, in March of 2026. His work has been awarded with numerous starred reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, and has been praised in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the New Yorker, among other publications.  As a speaker and panelist, a few of the places that Grant has appeared include Good Morning America, the Los Angeles Times Festival of the Book, and the Library of Congress’ National Book Festival. He is currently at work on his seventh novel, a dark comedy / period piece set all the way back in 2014.