BIO

Marc Anthony Richardson is a novelist from Philadelphia. Year of the Rat, a work of autofiction, won the American Book Award and the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Messiahs, a speculative novel, was a fiction finalist for the Big Other Book Award. The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast (forthcoming from Deep Vellum/Dalkey Archive Press) received a Creative Capital Award, a Sachs Program Grant for Arts Innovation, an Andrew W. Mellon Scholar-in-Residence from Rhodes University in South Africa, an Art Omi residency, and an Artistic Practitioner Fellowship from the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. He was also the recipient of a PEN America grant, a Hurston/Wright fellowship, and a Vermont Studio Center residency. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Callaloo, Black Warrior Review, Western Humanities Review, 580 Split, and the anthology Who Will Speak for America?, from Temple University Press. He received a BFA from Antioch College, an MFA from Mills College at Northeastern University, and has taught at Rutgers, Stony Brook, and the University of Pennsylvania.​ He is an artist and a yoga practitioner.