Equal parts Trinidadian, Bahamian, and US citizen, Robert Antoni is the author of five books: Divina Trace, Blessed is the Fruit, My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales, Carnival, and As Flies to Whatless Boys. His books have been widely translated, and have been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Commonwealth Writers Prize, and an NEA grant. Antoni holds an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. He lives in Manhattan and teaches in the graduate writing program at The New School University.
