Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the novels A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, The Illumination, The Brief History of The Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the story collections Things That Fall From The Sky and The View From The Seventh Layer. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He has published stories in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope, Tin House, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards, the Nelson Algren Award, the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. In 2007, he was named one of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he received his own MFA, and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.