Norman Lock has written stage and radio plays, short fiction, and novels, including A History of the Imagination (Fiction Collective 2) and Land of the Snow Men (Calamari Press and Kawade Shobo Shinsha, Japan). His most recent novels are The King of Sweden (Ravenna Press) and this fall’s Shadowplay (Ellipsis Press). He is a recipient of the Aga Kahn Prize given by The Paris Review and—for 2009—a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. (updated 8/2009)