From the Directory of Writers

Greg Ames

Fiction Writer
New York, NY

Greg Ames is the author of Buffalo Lockjaw, a novel that won the 2009 Book of the Year Award from the New Atlantic Booksellers Association (NAIBA). Buffalo Lockjaw was voted #1 in The Believer's Reader Survey for 2010. Greg Ames's work has appeared in the Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney's, The Southern Review, The Sun Magazine, failbetter.com, and Fiction International. He has been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize. He splits his time between New York City and Hamilton, New York, where he is an assistant professor at Colgate University.