Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta (born 1966) is an American author. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
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Spiotta at the National Book Critics Circle Awards in March 2012. | |
| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) New Jersey, US |
| Alma mater | Evergreen State College Columbia University |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Employer | Syracuse University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Rome Prize (2009) |
| Website | danaspiotta |
Her novel Stone Arabia (2011) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her novel Eat the Document (2006) was a National Book Award finalist and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novel Lightning Field (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.
In 2021, Spiotta published Wayward, which concerns four women: Sam Raymond, a perimenopausal woman; Ally Raymond, Sam's daughter; Lily, Sam's mother; and Clara Loomis, a fictitious 19th Century suffragette who ran away to the Oneida Community as a young woman.