About John Vurro

John Vurro’s debut novel Play, Rewind is forthcoming in Spring of 2025 from Tortoise Books. It was shortlisted for the Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest, judged by Charmaine Craig, and was also a finalist in Craft’s First Chapter Contest, judged by Masie Cochrun. His story, “Turnkey,” was chosen for Carve‘s One to Watch feature in their 2015 summer issue. His story, “Carmine’s War,” won Harpur Palate‘s 2013 John Gardner Award. His fiction has been published in The Literary Review, Eclipse, Glint, and elsewhere. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Examined Life, Sugar House Review, Action, Spectacle and elsewhere. His essay “Guardians'' was published in The Sun Journal. He lives in New Jersey.