His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Pushcart Prize XV and XIX, Paris Review, Antaeus, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Philip Lopate, editor of The Art of Personal Essay, calls Novakovich “a strong, original writer. His subtle prose makes me beam with pleasure and break into an anxious sweat at the same time. He has mastered the tone of ‘bearing witness’ as a principle of moral literature.”

Novakovich, who teaches writing at the University of Cincinnati, has also won a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship, a Cohen/Ploughshares award, and an Ingram Merrill award. Story Press recently published his Fiction Writer’s workshop. He holds degrees from Vassar (B.A.), Yale Divinity School (M.Div.) and the University of Texas (M.A.).