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Dana Spiotta



Dana Spiotta is the author of the novels Innocents and Others, which was published by Scribner in 2016; Stone Arabia (2011), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction; Eat the Document (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Lightning Field (2001). 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.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Lightning Field (2001)
   Eat the Document (2006)
   Stone Arabia (2011)
   Innocents and Others (2016)
   Wayward (2021)
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Books containing stories by Dana Spiotta
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 (2016)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Rachel Kushner

Award nominations
2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Innocents and Others
2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Stone Arabia
2006 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Eat the Document


Dana Spiotta recommends
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Memory Piece (2024)
Lisa Ko
"Dazzlingly inventive and knowing, Memory Piece is a bold and affecting novel about resistance, solidarity, and friendship."
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Hard Girls (2024)
(Jane and Lila Pool, book 1)
J Robert Lennon
"Hard Girls is a rollicking read, an immersive, funny, consequential family story that is also a thriller. Lennon is a master of plot and suspense, but he's also wonderful at creating indelible characters, particularly the wild twins at the heart of this story. Hard Girls deftly evokes complex family dynamics: the tense innocence and precocity of adolescence as well as the poignant, hard reckoning of parenthood."
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Last Acts (2024)
Alexander Sammartino
"Last Acts is an astonishingly strong debut, big hearted and hilarious. I swear every sentence in this novel is glorious. Sammartino writes like a millennial Don DeLillo... Rizzo is a singular and great American character: a tender-but-obtuse father, a confidence man with no confidence, a charismatic loser with a voice you can't help but love."

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