Alex Shakar

Alex Shakar’s first novel, The Savage Girl, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and Booksense 76 Pick, and has been translated into six foreign languages. His story collection, City In Love: The New York Metamorphoses, was the winner of the FC2 National Fiction Competition. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he now teaches fiction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and lives in Chicago with his wife, the composer Olivia Block.