birth_date: 0001-12-07 00:00:00
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name: Christopher Castellani
about: Christopher Castellani is the son of Italian immigrants and a native of Wilmington, Delaware. He is the author of four novels, including All This Talk of Love (2013) -- a New York Times Editors' Choice -- A Kiss from Maddalena (2003)--winner of the Massachusetts Book Award -- and The Saint of Lost Things (2005), a BookSense (IndieBound) Notable Book. His book of essays on the craft of fiction, The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, was published by Graywolf in 2016. Christopher's most recent novel novel, Leading Men, for which he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, was published in February 2019. It has been optioned for film by Peter Spears and Luca Guadagnino (Call Christopher Castellani is the son of Italian immigrants and a native of Wilmington, Delaware. He is the author of four novels, including All This Talk of Love (2013) -- a New York Times Editors' Choice -- A Kiss from Maddalena (2003)--winner of the Massachusetts Book Award -- and The Saint of Lost Things (2005), a BookSense (IndieBound) Notable Book. His book of essays on the craft of fiction, The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story, was published by Graywolf in 2016. Christopher's most recent novel novel, Leading Men, for which he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, was published in February 2019. It has been optioned for film by Peter Spears and Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) with a screenplay adaptation by Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance). Christopher is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College Low-Residency MFA program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. In 2015, he was awarded the "Writer for Writers" Award given by Barnes &amp; Noble and Poets &amp; Writers in recognition of his contributions to the literary community and his generosity toward fellow writers. He is the founder of the Muse and the Marketplace literary conference, organized by GrubStreet, where he works as Artistic Director. Christopher was educated at Swarthmore College, received his Masters in English Literature from Tufts University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Boston University. ...more