Anthony Marra


Anthony Marra is an American fiction writer. Marra has won numerous awards for his short stories, as well as his first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, which was a New York Times best seller.

Personal life

Marra was born in Washington, D.C., attended high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and has lived in Eastern Europe, though he now resides in Oakland, California.

Education

Marra attended the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland before attending the University of Southern California where he earned a bachelor's degree in creative writing. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he also taught as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction.
Marra has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Writing

Marra has contributed pieces to The Atlantic, Narrative Magazine, Granta, ''The Rumpus, New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.''

Literary awards

Books