John Dalton is the author of the novel Heaven Lake, winner of the Barnes and Noble 2004 Discover Award in fiction and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His second novel, The Inverted Forest, was published in 2011 and selected as a best book of the year by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Wall Street Journal's "Book Lover." John is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has held fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and The MacDowell Colony.
