Raisin, Ross

ROSS RAISIN s first novel, Out Backward, was nominated for eleven awards, including the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was awarded the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Betty Trask Award. He is an occasional contributor to The Guardian and holds an MFA from Goldsmiths College in London, England, where he resides.