Background
Salvatore Scibona was born in 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio to an ethnic Italian family.
Salvatore Scibona was born in 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio to an ethnic Italian family.
He graduated from Saint John"s College in 1997 and published an essay about his experience there in The New Yorker.
Scibona earned an Master of Fine Arts in 1999 at the Iowa Writer"s hop at the University of Iowa. The following year he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, using it to travel to Italy for research for his first novel, published as The End (2009). Scibona always wanted to be a writer
His work in both forms has been recognized by major awards, in addition to earning recognition as an emerging writer and fellowships.
He was named one of "20 under 40" notable authors by The New Yorker in 2010. From 2004 through 2013 he administered the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he is now Program Director.
He currently teaches at Wesleyan University.