Snowden Wright

Snowden Wright is a novelist whose work includes American Pop, which was named a Wall Street Journal WSJ+ Book of the Month and an NPR Favorite Book of the Year. He earlier wrote the debut novel Play Pretty Blues, which won the 2012 Summer Literary Seminars' Graywolf Prize. He has also written essays and criticism for outlets such as The Atlantic, Esquire, and The New York Daily News. He was a 2023 Artist-in-Residence at Tusen Takk Foundation, where he revised a novel and later taught a middle-school fiction masterclass. He lives in Yazoo County, Mississippi, and is working on a third novel for HarperCollins.