Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta (born 1966) is an American author. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.

Her novel ''Stone Arabia'' (2011) was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Her novel ''Eat the Document'' (2006) was a National Book Award finalist and won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her novel ''Lightning Field'' (2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the year.

In 2021, Spiotta published ''Wayward,'' which concerns four women: Sam Raymond, a perimenopausal woman; Ally Raymond, Sam's daughter; Lily, Sam's mother; and Clara Loomis, a fictitious 19th Century suffragette who ran away to the Oneida Community as a young woman. Provided by Wikipedia