Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation. He is the author of two novels and a short story collection. His first novel, Wise Men was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, and has been translated into five languages. His story collection, The Book of Life, was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Story Prize. His most recent novel, The Inseparables (Little, Brown), was published in July 2016, and named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, and was a finalist for the Mark Twain Prize for the American Voice.
He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teaching-Writing Fellow. He was also the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. He teaches creative writing at Boston College, and is also a member of the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.