TONY ARDIZZONE is the author of The Evening News, which won the 1985 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently The Arab's Ox: Stories of Morocco. His novels include The Whale Chaser, In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu, Heart of the Order, and In the Name of the Father. His work has received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Milkweed Editions National Fiction Prize, the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction, the Virginia Prize for Fiction, the Pushcart Prize, and two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Born and raised in Chicago, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
