He has won awards for his novels as well as short stories, and was selected in 2010 as one of The New Yorker's "20 under 40: Fiction Writers to Watch".
[1] In its citation the academy wrote, "Salvatore Scibona's work is grand, tragic, epic.
His novel The Volunteer, about war, masculinity, abandonment, and grimly executed grace, is an intricate masterpiece of plot, scene, and troubled character.
In language both meticulous and extravagant, Scibona brings to the American novel a mythic fury, a fresh greatness.
Since 2017, he has directed the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.