Tony Ardizzone is author of seven books of fiction, including In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu, Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood, Larabi¿s Ox: Stories of Morocco, and the recently completed novel The Whale Chaser. His writing has received the Flannery O¿Connor Award for Short Fiction, and other honors. He is director of the creative writing program at Indiana University and lives in Bloomington, Indiana.