Alex Gilvarry was born in Staten Island, New York, in 1981. He is the author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, winner of the Hornblower Award for First Fiction (from the New York Society Library), Best New Voice by Bookspan, and selected by the New York Times as an Editor’s Choice.
He’s a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 nominee and he has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Normal Mailer Center. His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Nation, the Boston Globe, NPR’s All Things Considered, and many other publications. His second novel, Eastman Was Here, was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award. He is a professor of creative writing at Monmouth University.
