Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta
Spiotta at the National Book Critics Circle Awards in March 2012.
Born	1966 (age 57–58) New Jersey, US
Alma mater	Evergreen State College Columbia University
Occupation	Novelist
Employer	Syracuse University
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Rome Prize (2009)
Website	danaspiotta.com

Dana Spiotta (born 1966) is an American author. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature,^[1] a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

She is the author of five novels. Innocents and Others (2016) won the St. Francis College Literary Prize. Stone Arabia (2011) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.^[2] Eat the Document (2006) was a National Book Award finalist^[3] and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.^[4] Lightning Field (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.^[5]

In 2021, Spiotta published Wayward, which concerns four women: Sam Raymond, a perimenopausal woman; Ally Raymond, Sam's daughter; Lily, Sam's mother; and Clara Loomis, a fictitious 19th Century suffragette who ran away to the Oneida Community as a young woman. Wayward was a New York Times Critics' Top Pick of 2021^[6] and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.^[7]