Anthony Marra is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and which appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award longlist selection, as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France’s Prix Médicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His story collection, The Tsar of Love and Techno, is forthcoming from Hogarth.