Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta is an author of literary fiction novels. Her novel Stone Arabia was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction; Eat the Document was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Syracuse with her daughter Agnes and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.