Victor Lodato is a playwright and the author of the novels Edgar and Lucy and Mathilda Savitch, winner of the PEN USA Award for fiction. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts; his stories and essays regularly appear in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. His novels and plays have been translated into eighteen languages. Born and raised in New Jersey, he now lives in Oregon and Arizona.