Vincent Czyz

Vincent Czyz is the author of a short story collection, two novels, a novella, and a collection of essays. His work has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and several anthologies, including Shenandoah, AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Copper Nickel, Tin House, Tampa Review, Georgetown Review, Skidrow Penthouse, New England Review, the Boston Review, and Logos Journal. He was awarded two fiction fellowships by the NJ Council on the Arts, the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Prize for Short Fiction, and the Truman Capote Fellowship at Rutgers University. His fiction collection won the Eric Hoffer Award for Best in Small Press. He spent nearly a decade in Istanbul, Turkey before returning to the United States and settling in Jersey City, NJ, where he lives with his wife and son. His work often deals with myth, religion, dreams, and primal ways of perceiving the world.