Garth Risk Hallberg: BA, Washington University, St. Louis. MFA, New York University. Author of the novel City on Fire, forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf, and the novella A Field Guide to the North American Family; anthologized in Best New American Voices 2008, Best of the Web 2008, The Late American Novel; stories and essays published in The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, Prairie Schooner, Glimmer Train, New York Magazine, Canteen, Slate, The Pinch, Los Angeles Times; The Millions (contributing editor); National Book Critics Circle Balakian Prize finalist (2011 and 2012); 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in fiction. SLC, 2016–