Speaking at the 5at Annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Antoine Wilson’s most recent novel Mouth to Mouth was featured on Barack Obama's Summer Reading List, and was a finalist for The Scotiabank Giller Prize, the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award, and the Prix Fitzgerald. Antoine is also the author of the novels Panorama City and The Interloper, and he is a contributing editor of the literary magazine A Public Space. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and recipient of a Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, he lives in Los Angeles.