Mark Jude Poirier is the author of two collections of short stories as well as two novels. His books have been New York Times notable books of the year, as well as Barnes and Noble Discover and Waterstone’s UK picks. He has published nearly thirty short stories which have appeared in Tin House, The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, Crazyhorse, BOMB, The Southern Review, The American Scholar, Epoch, and many other journals and anthologies.