Anthony Varallo

Anthony Varallo is the author of What Did You Do Today? (forthcoming, University of North Texas Press, 2023), winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. His other books include a novel, The Lines (University of Iowa Press, 2019), as well as four previous short story collections: This Day in History (University of Iowa Press, 2009), winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award; Out Loud (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; Think of Me and I’ll Know (Northwestern University Press, 2013); and Everyone Was There (Elixir Press, 2017), winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. He is a professor of English at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing and serves as fiction editor of swamp pink literary magazine.