Tony holds a BA in Philosophy and Film Studies from Amherst College, where he graduated with honors and won the Film Studies Award, and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa, where he designed and taught courses in literature and creative writing and won the Carl Klaus Teaching Award.

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He has served as an editorial assistant for The Iowa Review and an assistant editor for the London Review of Books. His college essay students have been accepted to Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Penn, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Wash U, Duke, Michigan, Georgetown, NYU, Rice, and UCLA, among others — many with significant scholarships. Tony is a regular contributor to The Surfer’s Journal, a literary magazine about the art and culture of surfing, a subject about which he is currently writing a book. He is represented by Creative Artists Agency.

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