Anthony Wallace

Anthony Wallace is an American short story writer and Boston University lecturer, best known for his award-winning collection The Old Priest (2013), which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; the title story earned a Pushcart Prize. Born around 1958, he grew up in South Philadelphia, worked as a casino croupier in Atlantic City, began publishing fiction in the 1990s after winning a prize in the Florida Review, and earned an MFA from BU in 1999. His stories, influenced by Raymond Carver and blending realism with uncanny elements, explore transformations, memory, and submerged lives in South Jersey settings, with twice a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award among his achievements.Bloom Interview, UPitt Press, Bostonia, Lafayette News