Austin Ratner
 
Austin Ratner is author of the novels In the Land of the Living, recently released from Reagan Arthur / Little Brown, and The Jump Artist, 2011 winner of the $100,000 Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. The Jump Artist was praised as “a remarkable work” by Harper’s Magazine and featured in Publishers Weekly in 2009 as one of ten promising debuts. His non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and his short fiction has been honored with the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize. He attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Before turning his focus to writing he received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and he is co-author of the textbook Concepts in Medical Physiology
He grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and now lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two sons.