Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta
Professor
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English
309 Hall of Languages
Email: dspiotta@syr.edu
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Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels: Wayward (2021), Innocents and Others (2016), winner of the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Stone Arabia (2011), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Eat the Document (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the American Academy's Rosenthal Foundation Award; and Lightning Field(2001), a New York Times Notable Book. Other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Literature, the Premio Pivano, a Creative Capital Award, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
(May 11, 2021)
Professor of English Dana Spiotta and her colleagues receive a Creative Capital Award for their new floating opera, Newtown Odyssey.
(Oct. 4, 2017)
Dana Spiotta recognized for fourth novel, 'Innocents and Others' (Scribner, 2016)
(Sept. 6, 2017)
Members of top-ranked M.F.A. program rack up honors, awards, new publications
(Sept. 21, 2016)
Syracuse professor will showcase latest novel, ‘Innocents and Others’ (Scribner 2016)
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