Robert AntoniRobert Antoni the author of seven books: Divina Trace, Blessed is the Fruit, My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales, Carnival, As Flies to Whatless Boys, Cut Guavas, and Foreign Body. His fictional world is the British West Indies—the region’s history, gography, folklore, and above all its vernacular languages. His books have been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, an NEA grant, the BOCAS prize for Best Book from the Caribbean, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Trinidad and Tobago National Library. He holds an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, an MFA and PhD from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. Antoni has taught in several writing programs, and he helped to establish the Pan-European MFA for Creative Writing, with alternating residencies in Barcelona, Vienna, and Dublin. His books have appeared in seven languages. Read More Read Less