Dana Spiotta

Spiotta at the National Book Critics Circle Awards, March 2012

Dana Spiotta (born 1966) is an American author. Her novel Stone Arabia (2011) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.[1] Her novel Eat the Document (2006) was a National Book Award finalist [2] and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[3] Her novel Lightning Field (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.[4] She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature,[5] a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

Spiotta lives in Central New York with her husband and daughter; she teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.[6]

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References

  1. National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2011 bookcritics.org press release, January 21, 2012
  2. National Book Awards – 2006 National Book Foundation
  3. "American Academy of Arts and Letters – Award Winners". Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  4. 2001 Notable Books: Fiction The New York Times, December 2, 2001
  5. "American Academy of Arts and Letters – Award Winners". Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  6. "ABOUT – DANA SPIOTTA". Retrieved 10 January 2016.

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