Teddy Wayne

2011 Winner in
Fiction

Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels Apartment (Bloomsbury Publishing), Loner (Simon & Schuster), The Love Song of Jonny Valentine (Simon & Schuster), and Kapitoil (Harper Perennial). He is the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a Whiting Award in Fiction, and has been a finalist for the the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A regular contributor to the New York Times, The New Yorker, and McSweeney’s, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Kate Greathead, and their son.

Photo Credit:
Christine Mladic
Reviews & Praise
From the Selection Committee

The Whiting judges took delight in Mr. Wayne’s “sleight of hand, the intelligence behind the voice, its perfect pitch.”