Alexander Sammartino

Alexander Sammartino was born in Rhode Island and grew up in Arizona. His debut novel, Last Acts, won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, was chosen as a New York Times Editors' Choice and National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. He received his MFA from Syracuse University, and he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and cat. He is the 2026–2027 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center.