John McManus

John McManus is the author of the short story collections Fox Tooth Heart, Born on a Train, and Stop Breakin Down and the novel Bitter Milk. His fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Tin House, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Electric Literature, The Oxford American, and many other journals. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Literature Award, the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award, a Fulbright Scholar award, and a Creative Capital Literature grant. His MFA in fiction and screenwriting comes from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. He teaches at Old Dominion University's MFA creative writing program in Norfolk, Virginia. He divides his time between there and New York, where he lives with his husband, the playwright and theatre director Kareem Fahmy.