Anthony Marra

Anthony Marra

reading at the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Occupation Writer
Education Landon School
Genre fiction
Notable awards Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2014)

Anthony Marra is an American fiction writer.

Life

Anthony Marra attended high school at the Landon School, and graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA, and the Iowa Writers Workshop with an MFA.[1] In 2009, he attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.[2] He was a 2011–2013 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.[3] Currently, he teaches at Stanford University as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, CA.

He has contributed pieces to The Atlantic,[4] Narrative Magazine,[5] and MAKE Magazine.[6] In 2010, his short story "Chechnya" won a 2010 Pushcart Prize and the 2010 Narrative Prize. He won a 2012 Whiting Writers' Award.[7]

His debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, was published in May 2013 by Hogarth. The novel received the inaugural John Leonard Prize given by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book.[8][9] It also won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.[10]

References

  1. ↑ This Year’s Award Winners | Whiting Writers' Awards | Programs | Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
  2. ↑ Giving Up – The Rumpus.net
  3. ↑ Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows – Stanford Creative Writing Program
  4. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003TXT5HE
  5. ↑ Recent Awards for Our Writers | Narrative Magazine
  6. ↑ Review: Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman | MAKE Literary Productions, NFP
  7. ↑ 2012 Whiting Writers’ Award- Fiction – Stanford Creative Writing Program
  8. ↑ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
  10. ↑ http://www.anisfield-wolf.org

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