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John Domini has won awards in all genres, including a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. To date, he has published four novels-- including a trilogy set in Naples, Italy-- three sets of stories, a memoir, a selection of criticism, and more.
Salman Rushdie called his novel The Color Inside a Melon "elegant and hard-boiled... an absorbing read." The Millions praised his short stories MOVIEOLA! as "a new shriek for a new century."
He has written criticism and journalism for Lit Hub, Washington Post, Brooklyn Rail, Boston Globe, GQ, and many others. Several of his works have appeared in Italian translation. Teaching literature and creative writing, he's worked at Harvard, Northwestern, and elsewhere. Currently, he lives in Des Moines and writes full-time.