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Anthony Marra (born 1984) is an American fiction writer. Marra has won numerous awards for his short stories, as well as his first novel, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, which was a New York Times best seller.[1]

Anthony Marra
Reading at the 2016 Gaithersburg Book Festival
Born	1984 Washington, D.C.
Occupation	Writer
Education	Landon School
Alma mater	University of Southern California; Iowa Writers Workshop
Genre	Historical fiction, Fiction, Short fiction
Notable works	A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Mercury Pictures Presents
Website
anthonymarra.net

Personal life

Marra was born in Washington, D.C.,[2] attended high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and has lived in Eastern Europe, though he now resides in Oakland, California.[3]

Education

Marra attended the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland before attending the University of Southern California where he earned with bachelor's degree in creative writing. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Between 2011 and 2013, he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University,[4] where he also taught as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction.[3]

Marra has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[5] and the National Endowment for the Arts.[2][6]

Writing

Marra has contributed pieces to The Atlantic,[7] Narrative Magazine,[8] Granta,[9] The Rumpus,[10] New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.[11]

Accolades

Year	Work	Accolade	Result	Ref
2010	"Chechnya"	Pushcart Prize	Winner	[5]
		Narrative Prize	Winner	[5]
2012	Self	Whiting Award	Winner	[12][13]
2013	A Constellation of Vital Phenomena	National Book Award for Fiction	Nominee	[14]
		California Book Award for First Fiction	Winner	[15]
		National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize	Winner	[16]
		Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction	Nominee	[15]
		Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books	Selection	[17]
		New York Times Notable Book of the Year	Selection	[18]
2014		New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award	Finalist	[19]
		Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction	Winner	[20][21]
		PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize	Shortlist	[22]
		Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction	Finalist	[23]
		The Athens Prize for Literature - Περιοδικό (δέ)κατα	Winner	[24]
		Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction	Longlist	[25]
		Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Debut	Winner	[26]
		Notable Books	Selection	[27]
		Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction Award	Winner	[16]
2015		Dublin Literary Award	Longlist	[16]
		Barnes & Noble Discover Award	Winner	[28][24]
2016	"The Grozny Tourist Bureau"	National Magazine Award for Fiction	Winner	[29]
2017	The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories	Literature.gr Phrase of the Year Prize	Winner	[30]
	Self	Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists	Selection	[31]
2018	Self	Simpson Family Literary Prize	Winner	[32]
	Self	Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize	Finalist	[33]
	Self	Jeanette Haien Ballard Writer’s Prize	Winner	[2]

Bibliography

Essays

• "Giving Up," published July 7, 2011 in The Rumpus
• "When a Sentence Changes Your Life—Then Changes Its Own Meaning," published May 7, 2013 in The Atlantic

Short stories

• "Chechnya," published in 2009 in Narrative Magazine
• "The Wolves of Bilaya Forest," May 31, 2012 by The Atlantic
• "The Lion's Den" (2019)
• "Lipari," published April 25, 2017 in Granta

Contributor

• xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, published September 24, 2013 by Penguin Books
• The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016, published October 4, 2016 by Mariner Books

Books

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, published May 7, 2013 by Random House
• The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories, published October 6, 2015 by Hogarth Press
• Mercury Pictures Presents, expected to be published July 19, 2022 by Hogarth Press

References

External links

• Anthony Marra (Official Website)
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

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