ROBERT ANTONI is the author of the landmark novel Divina Trace, for which he received a Commonwealth Writers Prize and an NEA grant. His other books include Blessed Is the Fruit, My Grandmothers Erotic Folktales, and Carnival. He was a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow (for his work on As Flies to Whatless Boys), and recently received the NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad & Tobago National Library. He now lives in Manhattan and teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School University.