Tony D’Souza

Tony D'Souza is a writer who served as a Peace Corps HIV/AIDS volunteer in Ivory Coast and Madagascar in the early 2000s. His 2006 novel Whiteman drew on that experience and won several major first-novel prizes. He received an NEA grant in 2007 and a Guggenheim in 2008. His nonfiction essay about returning to his Ivorian village appeared in LUMINA, Sarah Lawrence College's journal, in Volume XIII.