Tony D'Souza’s novel Whiteman was published by Harcourt in 2006. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Tin House, The Literary Review, Stand, Black Warrior Review, McSweeney’s, Iron Horse, Notre Dame Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and, in 2000, was chosen by Writers of the Americas as one of seven young fiction writers to represent the United States at the first US-Cuban writers’ conference since the revolution, held in Havana.

D’Souza earned graduate degrees in writing from Hollins University and the University of Notre Dame and served three years in the Peace Corps in West Africa, where he was a rural AIDS educator. A Chicago native, he currently lives in Sarasota, Florida.  

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