BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2015 – 2016

Colin Asher

For a biography of Algren

Colin Asher is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Believer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, and elsewhere. He teaches reading and writing as an Instructor at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, and was a 2014 fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts in nonfiction literature. Asher’s essay “But Never a Lovely So Real,” a profile of Nelson Algren, winner of the first National Book Award and the author of eleven books, was recently included in Read Harder, an anthology of the best Believer essays of the past five years. As a Leon Levy fellow he worked on a biography of Algren, published by W.W. Norton & Co.