John Vurro
An award winning author with over a decade of writing experience who has published across all genres
About this speaker
John Vurro’s debut novel Play, Rewind is forthcoming in Spring of 2025 from Tortoise Books. It was shortlisted for The Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest, judged by Charmaine Craig, and was also a finalist in Craft’s First Chapter Contest, judged by Masie Cochrun. His story, “Turnkey,” was chosen for Carve‘s One to Watch feature in their 2015 summer issue. His story, “Carmine’s War,” won Harpur Palate‘s 2013 John Gardner Award. His fiction has been published in The Literary Review, Eclipse, Glint, and elsewhere. His poems have been published in The Examined Life, Sugar House Review, Action, Spectacle and elsewhere. His essay “Guardians'' was published in The Sun Magazine. He lives in New Jersey.