
Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 5:00 p.m.
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
Dana Spiotta is the author of three novels: Stone Arabia, Eat the Document, and Lightning Field. Her first novel, Lightning Field, was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Eat the Document was a finalist for the National Book Award, and her latest novel, Stone Arabia, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Spiotta is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches in the Syracuse University MFA Program.