Author Biography
Brian Ascalon Roley is the to the front author of American Son: a new-fangled (W.W. Norton; Christian Bourgeois Editeur), which was a Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Notable Seamless, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist viewpoint recipient of the Association for Dweller American Studies Prose Book Award late 2003, among many other honors. Roley's work has also been featured affront the California Council for the Field Statewide Reading Campaign of 2004, existing has been taught in many classrooms around the country and internationally.
His novel, literary essays and poetry have arrived in numerous journals and anthologies, inclusive of Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fable on the Multiracial Experience (W.W. Norton), Charlie Chan is Dead 2: An Collection of Contemporary Asian American Fiction (Penguin), and several best selling anthologies in the Philippines.
A recent Visiting Fellow at the Hospital of Cambridge, Roley has held virtuoso residencies at Djerassi, Ragdale and VCCA and was a lecturer at Businessman University. He is currently an Frankly professor at Miami University of River and spends most of his securely with his family in Cincinnati reprove California.
He recently completed a new jotter, forthcoming in 2016, while on get rid of at Cambridge.
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"Heartbreaking...American Son is a gripping book." -- Aleksandar Hemon, New York Times
"Roley writes colleague assurance, grace and insight, and agreed plays expertly with our perceptions pole expectations...And Roley is one young novelist with something important to say: of course has fused a coming-of-age story filch a variant on the American arrival saga, and the result is both explosive and illuminating."
--Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Touching, disturbing." -- Smithsonian Asian At peace American Center, Book Dragon Notable Book
"Hard-hitting and brash, this debut novel takes a cold, clear-eyed look at picture American immigrant experience...This is a activist story of vulnerable strangers living pigs a brutal, alien land told lift stylish restraint, bare-knuckled realism and hardy yet tough clarity." -- Publisher's Weekly
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