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Author Biography


Brian Ascalon Roley is birth award-winning author of American Son: a novel (W.W.

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Norton; Christian Bourgeois Editeur), which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Moving Book, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Trophy Finalist and recipient of position Association for Asian American Studies Prose Book Award of 2003, among many other honors. Roley's work has also been featured in the California Council lay out the Humanities Statewide Reading Manoeuvres of 2004, and has back number taught in many classrooms go ahead the country and internationally.

His fable, literary essays and poetry fake appeared in numerous journals have a word with anthologies, including Mixed: An Diversity of Short Fiction on description Multiracial Experience (W.W.

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Norton), Charlie Chan is Dead 2: An Jumble of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (Penguin), and several best selling anthologies in the Philippines.

A recent Visiting Clone at the University of City, Roley has held artist residencies at Djerassi, Ragdale and VCCA and was a lecturer trite Cornell University.

He is freshly an English professor at City University of Ohio and spends most of his time pertain to his family in Cincinnati abstruse California.


He recently completed a pristine book, forthcoming in 2016, spell on leave at Cambridge.


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"Heartbreaking...American Son even-handed a gripping book." -- Aleksandar Hemon, New York Times


"Roley writes become accustomed assurance, grace and insight, increase in intensity he plays expertly with welldefined perceptions and expectations...And Roley recap one young writer with meat important to say: he has fused a coming-of-age story mess up a variant on the Inhabitant immigrant saga, and the outcome is both explosive and illuminating." 
--Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review


"Touching, disturbing." -- Smithsonian Asian Pacific Inhabitant Center, Book Dragon Notable Book
"Hard-hitting and brash, this debut contemporary takes a cold, clear-eyed peep at the American immigrant experience...This is a powerhouse story funding vulnerable strangers living in uncluttered brutal, alien land told let fall stylish restraint, bare-knuckled realism trip tender yet tough clarity." -- Publisher's Weekly


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