Mark Slouka (born 1958 in New York City[1]) is an American novelist and essayist who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005.
From 1985 to 1989 he served as Teaching Fellow at Harvard University where he was giving courses in American Literature.
[4] In 2003, Slouka's first novel God's Fool fictionalized the life of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker.
[5] An essay of his entitled "Listening for Silence: Notes on the Aural Life" appeared in the 2004 anthology Audio Cultures.
His second novel, The Visible World, tells the story of a son uncovering his flawed parents' earlier life in the Czech resistance.