Author Biography
ANTHONY MARRAis the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013), which won the National Book Critics Circle s inaugural John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra s novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France s Prix Medicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, California.Visit http: //anthonymarra.net/ From the Hardcover edition.
