Adam Haslett is the author of the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope All-Story, Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Prize Stories, and National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. In 2006, he won the PEN/Malamud Award for accomplishment in short fiction. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Columbia University and currently lives in New York City, where he is working on a novel.