Robert Boswell is the author of six novels including Century’s Son, Mystery Ride, and Crooked Hearts, three story collections including The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, a play, a cyberpunk novel, and two nonfiction books. He has received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction, the PEN West Award for Fiction, the John Gassner Prize for Playwriting, and the Evil Companions Award. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, Esquire, Colorado Review, and other magazines. He teaches creative writing at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.