Thom Conroy is senior lecturer in creative writing at Massey University and author of the historical novel The Naturalist (Random House, 2014). His work has also appeared in various journals in the U.S. and New Zealand, including New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Sport, and Landfall. His fiction was recognized in The Best American Short Stories 2011 and won the 2005 Nimrod/Hardman Katherine Anne Porter Prize. (updated 4/2015)