Dana
Spiotta attended Columbia University for two years as an undergraduate. She
received her BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She
lived in Seattle until 1993 when she moved to New York City. She was the
managing editor (with Jodi Davis) of The Quarterly (Gordon Lish’s magazine)
for two years. Scribner published her first novel, Lightning
Field, in 2001. Her second novel, Eat
the Document, was released in Feb., 2006. Spiotta now lives in a small
town in central New York. She and her husband have a two-year-old daughter,
Agnes Coleman. When she isn’t writing, Spiotta and her husband run their small
country restaurant. The restaurant is on the ground floor of their home.
Dana
Spiotta attended Columbia University for two years as an undergraduate. She
received her BA from the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She
lived in Seattle until 1993 when she moved to New York City. She was the
managing editor (with Jodi Davis) of The Quarterly (Gordon Lish’s magazine)
for two years. Scribner published her first novel, Lightning
Field, in 2001. Her second novel, Eat
the Document, was released in Feb., 2006. Spiotta now lives in a small
town in central New York. She and her husband have a two-year-old daughter,
Agnes Coleman. When she isn’t writing, Spiotta and her husband run their small
country restaurant. The restaurant is on the ground floor of their home.