John Pipkin’s first novel, Woodsburner (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, The Massachusetts Center for the Book Fiction Prize, and the Texas Institute of Letters First Novel Prize. His second novel, The Blind Astronomer’s Daughter (Bloomsbury), received glowing reviews, most notable in The New York Times Book Review, and it was named the Book of the Month for December 2016 by The Times (London). Originally from Baltimore, MD, he currently lives in Austin, TX, where he is the Director of the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program and at the University of Texas at Austin, and he also teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Spalding University. He is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Dobie Paisano, and the Gullkistan Center for Creativity in Iceland.
