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Siobhan Fallon

Biography

Siobhan Fallon

Siobhan Fallon is the author of the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction winner YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE, and the recipient of the 2012 Indies Choice Honor Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Military Spouse, The Huffington Post and NPR’s Morning Edition, among others. She was raised in Highland Falls, New York, just outside the gates of the United States Military Academy at West Point. She graduated from Providence College and spent a year at Cambridge University in England. After teaching English in Japan, she earned an MFA at the New School in New York City. She and her family moved to Jordan in 2011, and they currently live in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Siobhan Fallon

Books by Siobhan Fallon

The Confusion of Languages
by Siobhan Fallon - Fiction

Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, LANGUAGES OF TRUTH chronicles Salman Rushdie’s intellectual engagement with a period of momentous cultural shifts. Immersing the reader in a wide variety of subjects, he delves into the nature of storytelling as a human need, and what emerges is, in myriad ways, a love letter to literature itself. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty and Toni Morrison mean to him, whether on the page or in person. He delves deep into the nature of “truth,” revels in the vibrant malleability of language and the creative lines that can join art and life, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and censorship.

You Know When the Men Are Gone
by Siobhan Fallon - Fiction, Short Stories

There is an army of women waiting for their men to return in Fort Hood, Texas. Through a series of interconnected stories, Siobhan Fallon takes readers onto the army base, inside the homes, into the marriages and families of Fort Hood soldiers.