Justin Kramon is the author of the novel Finny, which will be published by Random House in July, 2010.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has published stories in Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Boulevard, Fence, TriQuarterly, and others. He has received honors from the Michener-Copernicus Society of America, Best American Short Stories, the Hawthornden International Writers' Fellowship, and the Bogliasco Foundation.

He teaches at Gotham Writers' Workshop in New York City and at the Iowa Young Writers' Workshop.

He lives in Philadelphia.

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