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Jamie Quatro
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Jamie Quatro’s debut novel, Fire Sermon, was published in 2018 with Grove Press (U.S.) and Picador (U.K.). Selected as one of the Top Seven Novels of 2018 by The Economist, and named a Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle, LitHub, Bloomberg, and the Times Literary Supplement, Fire Sermon was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book, Indie Next pick, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Quatro’s story collection, I Want To Show You More, was a New York Times Notable Book, NPR Best Book of 2013, and was chosen as a favorite book of 2013 by James Wood in The New Yorker. The collection was a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award, the Townsend Fiction Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. A new novel and story collection are forthcoming from Grove. A contributing editor at Oxford American, her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Guardian, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Recent essays have appeared at The New Yorker, Oxford American, and as part of the Greenpeace Climate Visionaries series. Quatro is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo and has taught in the Kenyon Review Writing Workshops and the Sewanee MFA program. She lives with her family in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (updated 11/2022)

AGNI has published the following work:

Fiction
Imperfections
AGNI 73 Print Only
Fiction
Relatives of God
AGNI 73 Print Only
Fiction
You Look Like Jesus
AGNI 73 Print Only
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