About

Dana Czapnik’s critically acclaimed debut novel The Falconer was published in 2019 by Atria/Simon & Schuster in the US and Faber & Faber in the UK and has been translated to German and Italian. The Falconer was a New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick, an Oprah Magazine Reading Room Pick, and was long-listed for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Czapnik has earned fellowships in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Center for Fiction, and the Hertog Foundation, and received her MFA from Hunter College. Her essays, interviews, and fiction have been published in The Guardian, ESPN, Lithub, Refinery 29, and Electric Literature. In 2019, she was named one of the “Forward 50” – one of the 50 most influential Jewish Americans. Czapnik has taught creative writing at Hunter College and is currently a visiting professor at Barnard College. An adaptation of The Falconer based on her teleplay is in development at John Wells Productions.