Dana Spiotta was born on 1966 and is an American author.
10 Facts About Dana Spiotta
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Dana Spiotta 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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Dana Spiotta's novel Stone Arabia was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
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Dana Spiotta's novel Eat the Document was a National Book Award finalist and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Dana Spiotta's novel Lightning Field was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.
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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.
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Dana Spiotta's parents met at Hofstra while acting in play by fellow student Francis Ford Coppola.
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Dana Spiotta attended Crossroads School and went on to Columbia University, but dropped out at the end of her sophomore year.
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Dana Spiotta moved to Seattle and eventually enrolled at Evergreen State College and studied labor history and creative writing.
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Dana Spiotta teaches in the Syracuse University MFA creative writing program along with George Saunders, Mary Karr.