Ethan Canin

Highly regarded as both a novelist and a short story writer, Ethan Canin has ranged in his career from the "breathtaking short stories of Emperor of the Air to the "stunning novellas of The Palace Thief, from the "wise and beautiful"short novel Carry Me Across the Water to the "epic America America. He attended Stanford University, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and then Harvard Medical School. He is currently on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and divides his time between Iowa and northern Michigan.