Ethan Canin is an author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He attended Stanford University and earned an undergraduate degree in English. Canin entered the Iowa Writers' Workshop, receiving an MFA in 1984 and went on to attend Harvard Medical School where he earned an MD in 1991. Beginning his medical practice with a residency at the University of California San Francisco, he pursued both medicine and writing for several years, leaving medicine in 1998 to join the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he still teaches. He is a co-founder of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Canin is the author of such books as America America, The Palace Thief, Emperor of the Air, and Carry Me Across the Water.
Listen as he reads some of his recent work. [download]
