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Brian Ascalon Roley
Professor of English and Creative Writing
English

Brian Ascalon Roley

Contact Info

513-529-5110
Bachelor Hall 3088
Website

Education

  • J.D., University of California, Los Angeles
  • MFA, Creative Writing, Cornell University, Creative Writing, 1998
  • B.A., Philosophy, Wesleyan University

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Creative writing
  • Film, Theatre and Literature Adaptations
  • Disability / Medical Narratives
  • Contemporary and Twentieth Century Literature
  • Asian American Literature
  • Literature and the Law

Selected Publications

(For more, see BrianRoley.com)

Novel and Collections

  • The Ice Beneath the Earth, C&R Press (Summer Tidepool Competition), 2024.
  • Ambuscade, Finishing Line Press (Open Competition Award), 2021.
  • The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal (and other stories), Northwestern University Press, 2016.
  • American Son: A Novel, W.W. Norton, 2001; French translation by François Happe, Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 2006. (Winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Prose Book Award 2003; a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Notable Book of the Year; a Los Angeles Times Best Book; a Salon.com selection; Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist.)

Shorter Works

  • Fiction, literary essays and poetry appear in a wide range of anthologies, such as Charlie Chan is Dead 2: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (ed. Jessica Hagedorn; Penguin); California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century (selected by Chitra Divakaruni, published by Heydey Books); Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction from the Multiracial Experience (ed. Chandra Prasad; W.W. Norton, 2006); Los Angeles Noir (ed. Denise Hamilton, Akashic 2007); and several popular anthologies in the Philippines.
  • Short fiction, novella work, essays, poetry, and hybrid work have also appeared in numerous national periodicals, such as The North America Review, The Iowa Review (extended poetry), The New York Times, Epoch, The Georgia Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, The American Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Ascent, The Asian American Literary Review, Post Road Magazine, Fence, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, The Seattle Review, and many others.

Awards and Honors (Selected)

  • National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellow, 2020
  • Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, 2018
  • Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge
  • Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (London)
  • Association of Asian American Studies 2003 Prose Book Award
  • New York Times Notable Book
  • Los Angeles Times Best Book
  • Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize finalist
  • Featured in the California Council for the Humanities 2004 statewide reading program
  • Salon Best of May
  • Lawrence Foundation Award
  • Djerassi Artist Residency Fellow
  • Ragdale Foundation Residency Fellowship
  • Virginia Center for the Creative Artists Residency Fellowship
  • Arthur Lynn Andrews Prize
  • Sage Fellow
  • Faulkner Society Prize finalist in novella category
  • Kurt Vonnegut Prize finalist

Work in Progress

For current progress and news, see brianroley.com.

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