Josh Weil is the author of the novel The Great Glass Sea and the novella collection The New Valley , a New York Times Editors Choice book that won the Sue Kaufman Prize from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New Writers Award from the GLCA, and a “5 Under 35” Award from the National Book Foundation. His writing has appeared in Granta, Esquire, Tin House, One Story, The Sun, and The New York Times. A recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, MacDowell, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, he has been Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University and Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. He lives in the northern part of the Sierra Nevada mountains.