Ander MonsonRane Arroyo
Essay

Ander Monson won the 2008 GLCA New Writers Award for his collection of essays, Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, which also won the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Publishers Weekly’s starred review of Neck Deep notes that Monson “offers a parade of quirky, at times avant-garde methods for exploring his obsessions with everything from frisbee golf . . . to car washes . . . to the lost art of sending telegrams.” Ander Monson is the author of two other books, Other Electricities and Vacationland, and creator and editor of DIAGRAM, an online literary magazine. He recently moved from Michigan to Arizona.