Charles D’Ambrosio 
Oregon
USA Rasmuson Fellow, Literature

Charles D’Ambrosio is a short story writer and essayist. His stories have been published in the New Yorker and Paris Review, among other notable periodicals. His darkly evocative tales are written in fluid and idiosyncratic prose and populated by desperate characters. His first collection of stories, The Point (1995), was a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award, and in 2006 he was honored with the prestigious Whiting Writers Award.

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Portrait photo courtesy L.E. Baskow  
The Dead Fish Museum, 2006; photo courtesy the artist and Alfred A. Knopf