Josip Novakovich

Josip Novakovich moved from Croatia to the US at the age of twenty. He has published a novel, APRIL FOOL’S DAY (in ten countries), three story collections (INFIDELITIES: STORIES OF WAR AND LUST, YOLK, and SALVATION AND OTHER DISASTERS) and two collections of narrative essays. His work was anthologized IN BEST AMERICAN POETRY, THE PUSHCART PRIZE collection, and O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES. He has received the Whiting Writer’s Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Ingram Merrill Award, an American Book Award, and he has been a writing fellow of the New York Public Library. He teaches in the MFA program at Penn State University and is currently a fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in Nevada.