Tatjana Soli is a novelist and short story writer.  Her stories have appeared in publications including The Sun, StoryQuarterly, Confrontation, Gulf Coast, Other Voices, Nimrod, Third Coast, Carolina Quarterly, Sonora Review and North Dakota Quarterly.  Her work has been twice listed in the 100 Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories and twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.  Soli was awarded the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Prize, the Dana Award, and was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize. Soli also received scholarships to the Sewanee Writers' Conference and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.  Born in Salzburg, Austria, she attended Stanford University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program.  Soli lives with her husband in Orange County, California, and teaches through the Gotham Writers' Workshop.  Her debut novel, The Lotus Eaters, will be released by St. Martin's Press April, 2010, details at www.tatjanasoli.com.

"This is a voice which needs to be heard; very elegant prose."  John Biguenet  "It's awfully hard to write about people who are so disenfranchised and make it feel real,…in a way that feels effortless.  The fear and the pain and, above that, the courage and resilience of the narrator shook me up, in precisely the way I want a story to.  I was reminded of the work of Daniel Mason and Zora Neale Hurston."  Steve Almond  "Among Tatjana Soli's many gifts are a sure hand for evoking time and place and an uncompromising emotional accuracy.…a writer to watch."  Janet Peery