Tony D'Souza was born and raised in Chicago. He earned Masters degrees in writing from Hollins University and the University of Notre Dame, and served three years in the Peace Corps in West Africa, where he was a rural AIDS educator.
Tony’s internationally award winning fiction has appeared in magazines and journals such as The New Yorker, Playboy, Tin House, Stand, The Literary Review, The Black Warrior Review, Iron Horse, and many others, and is forthcoming in McSweeney's and Subtropics. In 2000, he was chosen by Writers of the Americas as one of seven young fiction writers to represent the United States at the first US-Cuban writers’ conference since the Revolution, held in Havana. The National Endowment for the Arts named Tony as a 2006 literature fellow in prose. His first novel, Whiteman, chronicles the daily struggles of an African village during a time of war, as well as the increasing psychic and cultural isolation of the lone foreign relief worker who lives in it. The Wall Street Journal and Vanity Fair heralded Whiteman as one of the most anticipated novels of the year, Nerve Magazine nominated it for Best Sex Scene of the Year, and it has debuted to widespread critical acclaim.