Brian Ascalon Roley

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Brian Roley, Assistant Professor (M.F.A. Cornell, J.D. UCLA, B.A. Wesleyan), is the author of American Son (W.W. Norton). The novel 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, 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, a Sage Fellowship, and Faulkner Society Prize finalist in the novella category. He has been an Associate Editor at Epoch Magazine and taught creative writing at Cornell.

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