Vanessa Manko is the author of The Invention of Exile, which was a finalist for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and a Kirkus Reviews’ best books of 2014. Her work has appeared in Granta, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review’s The Daily and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Formerly the Dance Editor of The Brooklyn Rail, she has received residencies and fellowships from Yaddo, Edith Wharton’s The Mount, The American Library in Paris and NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts. She teaches writing at NYU’s The Gallatin School.
