Anthony Marra


Anthony Marra is an American fiction writer.

Career

Anthony Marra attended high school at the Landon School in Bethesda, Md., and graduated with a bachelor's degree in creative writing from the University of Southern California Department of English, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa with an MFA.
He was a 2011–2013 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Currently, he teaches at Stanford University as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, Calif.
He has contributed pieces to The Atlantic, Narrative Magazine, and MAKE Magazine.
His debut novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, was published in May 2013 by Hogarth.

Accolades

Marra's first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, received the inaugural John Leonard Prize given by the National Book Critics Circle for a first book. It also won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. and the French Grand prix des lectrices de Elle
In 2010, his short story "Chechnya" won a 2010 Pushcart Prize and the 2010 Narrative Prize. He also won a 2012 Whiting Award.
In 2016, his short story "The Grozny Tourist Bureau", initially published in won a National Magazine Award for Fiction. In 2018, Marra won the Simpson Family Literary Prize, which is awarded to an excellent mid-career author.

Works