Grew up in upstate New York.

Got a typewriter at 4.

Published at 19.

Met some crazy writers based out of Chicago who asked me to join in the fun.

Wrote a thinly veiled piece about them for the New Yorker.

My first book was reviewed favorably in the NY Times Book Review last year. If you read fiction you've probably already read it or at least heard of it.

The hardcover has my picture on the back inside cover. I was drunk.