Brian Booker grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. His fiction has been published in The Antioch Review, Conjunctions, _AGNI online, _Epoch, New England Review, One Story, Shenandoah, Tin House, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. His collection, The Sleeping Sickness, was a finalist in the Iowa Short Fiction Awards. In 2009–2010, Brian was a winter fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He received his PhD in English from NYU in 2009, with a dissertation on David Foster Wallace. Brian currently lives in Iowa City, where he is an Iowa Arts Fellow in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. (updated 8/2013)