Overview
Alex Gilvarry is the author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, winner of the Hornblower Award for First Fiction (from the New York Society Library), Best New Voice by Bookspan, and selected by the New York Times as an Editor’s Choice. He’s a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award-winner and has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center, the Normal Mailer Center, and has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Boston Globe, NPR’s All Things Considered, and many other publications. His second novel, Eastman Was Here, was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award. He has taught creative writing at Wesleyan University, Columbia University, Southern New Hampshire University, and as an associate professor at Monmouth University for ten years, where he served as director of the MFA program.