Christopher Castellani is an acclaimed author and educator. He is the artistic director of GrubStreet and serves on the faculty and academic boards of the Warren Wilson MFA program and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. His novels include A Kiss from Maddalena, winner of the 2004 Massachusetts Book Award; The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love, a New York Times editor’s choice.  He is also the author of The Art of Perspective, a book of craft essays on point of view in fiction. His new novel, Leading Men, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, will be published by Viking in 2019.