Dana Spiotta is the author of Stone Arabia, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Eat the Document, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Lightning Field. Spiotta received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellow­ship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and the Rome Prize for Literature. Her work has been pub­lished by the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review. She teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.

A wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary life