Brian Ascalon Roley

Profile

Brian Ascalon Roley, Associate Professor, is a graduate of Cornell University's MFA program in creative writing. His novel, American Son (W.W. Norton), was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, a Los Angeles Times Best Book, a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize finalist, and the recipient of the 2003 AAAS Prose Book Award (given by the Association of Asian American Studies). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Epoch, The Georgia Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, North American Review, American Literary Review, Ascent, Prairie Schooner, Seattle Review, the Asian American Literary Review, and elsewhere, and his work has been translated and anthologized. His work was also part of the California Council for the Humanities statewide reading campaign of 2004.

Other honors include a Lawrence Foundation Award, the Pamana Legacy Arts Award in Literature, Cornell University’s Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize for best graduate student fiction, a Sage Fellowship, and Faulkner Society Prize finalist in the novella category.

He has received extended residency fellowships for the Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Djerassi Foundation artist colonies. He has been an Associate Editor at Epoch Magazine and taught creative writing at Cornell.

More information can be found at: www.brianroley.com.