Ed Falco is the New York Times bestselling author of a dozen books, including novels and short story collections. His work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, and Ploughshares. He won the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction for Acid and has received many other awards and fellowships, including an NEA Fellowship in fiction, the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Short Fiction, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Poetry, and the Mishima Prize for Innovative Fiction.