Marianne Wiggins was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and has lived in Brussels, Rome, Paris and London. She is the author of ten books of fiction, including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen — for which she was a National Book Award finalist in fiction, as well as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won an NEA grant, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She is Professor of English at the University of Southern California.