Robert Antoni

Robert Antoni is the author of the landmark novel "Divina Trace, " for which he received a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and an NEA grant. His other books include "Blessed Is the Fruit, My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales, " and "Carnival." He was a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow (for his work on "As Flies to Whatless Boys"), and recently received the NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad & Tobago National Library. He now lives in Manhattan and teaches in the graduate writing program at the New School University.