Bob Shacochis

Bob Shacochis's first collection of stories, Easy in the Islands , won the National Book Award for First Fiction, and his second collection, The Next New World , was awarded the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is also the author of the novel Swimming in the Volcano , a finalist for the National Book Award, The Immaculate Invasion , a work of literary reportage that was a finalist for The New Yorker Book Award for Best Nonfiction of the Year; and The Woman Who...See more

Bob Shacochis's first collection of stories, Easy in the Islands , won the National Book Award for First Fiction, and his second collection, The Next New World , was awarded the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is also the author of the novel Swimming in the Volcano , a finalist for the National Book Award, The Immaculate Invasion , a work of literary reportage that was a finalist for The New Yorker Book Award for Best Nonfiction of the Year; and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul , which won the Dayton Peace Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Shacochis is a contributing editor at Outside , a former columnist for Gentleman's Quarterly , and has served as a contributing editor for Harper's and GQ . His op-eds on the US military, Haiti, and Florida politics have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , and The Wall Street Journal . See less