Evan Fallenberg, MFA

Evan Fallenberg is the author of three novels and a translator of Hebrew fiction, plays, and films. His work has won or been short-listed for numerous awards, including the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Stonewall Award for Literature, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and the PEN Translation Prize. He teaches at Bar-Ilan University and is faculty co-director of the Vermont College of Fine Arts International MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation. Fallenberg is the recipient of residency fellowships from the NEA, MacDowell Colony, Banff Centre for the Arts, Fondation Ledig-Rowohlt, and Sun Yat-sen University, and is the founder of Arabesque: An Arts and Residency Center in Old Acre.