Wayne Karlin is the author of eight novels: A Wolf by the Ears, Marble Mountain, The Wished-For Country, Prisoners (all with Curbstone Press), Lost Armies, The Extras, Us (all with Henry Holt), and Crossover (Harcourt), and three works of non-fiction: Rumors and Stones, War Movies (Curbstone Press), and Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam(Nation Books). His books have been published in translation in Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Vietnam.  In 1973 Karlin co-edited the first anthology of veterans’ fiction from the Vietnam War, Free Fire Zone, and thirty years later became the editor of the Curbstone Press Voices from Vietnam series, publishing Vietnamese writers in translation.  He has written and co-produced a series broadcast on National Public Radio, and was a script writer and acted in an award-winning feature fil, The Song of the Stork. He has received five State of Maryland Individual Artist Awards in Fiction, two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1994 and 2004), the Paterson Prize in Fiction for 1999, the Vietnam Veterans of American Excellence in the Arts Award in 2005, and the Juniper Prize for Fiction for 2019 for his novel of the War of 1812, A Wolf by the Ears, published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2020.

Website: www.wayne-karlin.squarespace.com

Publications

• A Wolf by the Ears , UMass Press (March 31, 2020)

Awards

• The Juniper Prize in Fiction(2019)

Employment

• Professor Emeritus, Languages and Literature at College of Southern Maryland (May 2018 - )

Degrees

• Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College, Vermont (February 1976)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction