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*Author has won countless awards and fellowships, including an NEA Fellowship in Creative Wrting (non-fiction), Ingram-Merrill Foundation Fellowship (fiction), Meridian Editors’ Award (poetry), Iowa Arts Council Major Artist Grant (non-fiction), Northwestern U Center for the Writing Arts Study Grant (fiction) *Pulitzer prize finalist for an earlier work, Earthquake ID *Book reviewer and literary critic for the Washington Post, LitHub, Bookforum, Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, and other publications *Author's nonfiction essays on Naples have appeared in the New York Times, Lit Hub, Necessary Fiction, Zone 3, and elsewhere *Author has also won distinction in Italy, where he regularly tours and has connections to local booksellers; he was a featured speaker in Parole in Viaggio, Naples & Ravello, December 2017