Franklin & Marshall College

Nicholas Montemarano is the author of the short story collection If the Sky Falls (2005), a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, and the novel A Fine Place (2002). A new novel, The Book of Why, is forthcoming from Little, Brown. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin House, The Southern Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and many other publications. His fiction has been reprinted in The Pushcart Prize (2003) and cited as distinguished stories of the year in The Best American Short Stories for 2001, 2002, 2005, and 2006. He has published memoir pieces in The Washington Post Magazine and DoubleTake. He is the recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts (2002), the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (2005), The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.