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A graduate of Stanford University's Symbolic Systems program, he took creative writing classes with Adam Johnson, ZZ Packer, and Elizabeth Tallent. After graduating, he published a handful of stories, one of which won an O. Henry Award, as he worked for a small Bay Area UX firm. He got accepted to the Iowa Writers' Workshop the same week he was laid off in 2010.\n\nAt Iowa he finished most of a draft of his debut novel *Private Citizens*, which was called \"the first great Millennial novel\" by *New York Magazine* after its publication in 2016, and received a Whiting Writers' Award. In 2017 he founded CRIT, an independent class he teaches out of his apartment in Brooklyn, whose alumni have gone on to publish 34 books to date. He has written for *The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Believer, Playboy,* The Nation, and others.\n\nTony's second book is a novel-in-stories, *Rejection*, published in 2024. *Rejection* has been translated into seven languages, and was nominated for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, and the Clark Prize, and received a Jack Galef Literary Arts award. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email zvwseries@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. 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