Monica West

Monica West's debut novel Revival Season was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Barnes and Noble Discover selection, and shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. A Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Monica has also received fellowships and funding from the Hawthornden Foundation, Ragdale, Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, Kimbilio Fiction, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She currently teaches fiction at the University of San Francisco.