Alumni Writer-in-Residence
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
English
By Appointment
MFA, Washington University in St. Louis
BA, Emory University
Anton DiSclafani’s first novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, was a New York Times bestseller, an Indie Next pick and bestseller, and a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. YRC was named a most anticipated book of the summer by The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly, and was a summer book pick by USA Today and National Public Radio. It was named a book of the year by Slate, and has since been translated into twelve languages. Her nonfiction has appeared in Southbound, Rhapsody, and Biographile. She also wrote and performed a segment for This American Life. Her newest novel, The After Party is about obsession and love in free-wheeling 1950's Houston (Penguin/Riverhead).
DiSclafani received her BA from Emory University, and her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was previously a writer-in-residence. Now an associate professor at Auburn University, DiSclafani lives in Auburn with her husband and son.
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