Listen "First Draft - Dana Spiotta"
Episode Synopsis
Dana Spiotta is the author of four novels: Innocents and Others, published by Scribner in 2016; Stone Arabia (2011), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in fiction; Eat the Document(2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Lightning Field (2001). Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She lives in Syracuse with her daughter Agnes and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More episodes of the podcast First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
First Draft - Benjamin Wood
12/01/2026
First Draft - Marisa Silver (Returns)
05/01/2026
First Draft - Devon O'Neil
29/12/2025
First Draft - Ruben Reyes Jr.
15/12/2025
First Draft - Megha Majumdar
08/12/2025
First Draft - Paula Saunders
01/12/2025
First Draft - Tracy K. Smith (Returns)
24/11/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.