Author Anthony Marra will read excerpts from his novel Constellation of Vital Phenomena, share stories of his travels in Chechnya and discuss the inspiration and writing of his novel.

ANTHONY MARRA is the author of the New York Times bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the California Book Award, and Greece’s Athens Prize for Literature. A National Book Award long list selection, Constellation was also a finalist for France’s Prix Médicis Étranger and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. Marra received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction.

Marra will be teaching a week-long fiction writing workshop June 15-19.

For more information on Anthony Marra visit anthonymarra.net.