Tony Ardizzone is a native of Chicago's North Side and the author of six books of fiction. He is also the editor of the recently released anthology The Habit of Art: Best Stories from the Indiana University Fiction Workshop (Indiana University Press), and he has just completed work on his fourth novel, The Whale Chaser, which is set in Chicago and in Tofino on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. His creative writing has received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Chicago Foundation for Literature Award for Fiction sponsored by the Friends of Literature, the Pushcart Prize, the Virginia Prize for Fiction, the Lawrence Foundation Award, the Bruno Arcudi Literature Prize, the Prairie Schooner Readers' Choice Award, the Black Warrior Review Literary Award in Fiction, the Cream City Review Editors' Award in Nonfiction, as well as two individual artist fellowships in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2005 Ardizzone was the recipient of the Tracy M. Sonneborn Award, given annually by Indiana University, Bloomington, to a faculty member for outstanding teaching and research or creative activity. At Indiana University he offers courses in creative writing and the craft of fiction, ethnic American literature, 20th century American fiction, and literary interpretation. He has served two terms as Director of the Creative Writing Program, as well as a pair of terms on the Board of Directors of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. In 2006 Indiana University named him Chancellor's Professor of English, a title given to faculty members who have achieved local, national and international distinction in teaching, research or creative activity, and the interaction between teaching and research.

This site is dedicated to information about and critical reviews of his creative work. The site also contains a biography of the author and a page of links of literary and cultural interest.

Site design: Matthew S. S. Johnson