Tony Eprile

novelist and photographer

Tony Eprile is a South African novelist and photographer who lives in Vermont. His novel, The Persistence of Memory, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, longlisted for the Dublin Impac Prize, and won the Koret International Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His writing and photographs have appeared in O Magazine, The New York Times, Details, The Nation, Discover, and elsewhere. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Lesley University, Williams College, Bennington and elsewhere. Tony is an avid amateur naturalist and mycologist whose favorite subject to teach is how observation and creativity connect.