Lodato, Victor

Victor Lodato is a playwright, poet and novelist. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, and has won numerous awards for his plays, including one from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. "Mathilda Savitch", his first novel, received the PEN USA Literary Award and was named a Best Book of 2009 by "The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist" and "The Globe and Mail". He lives in Tucson and New York City.