Brock Clarke is the author of nine books, most recently the novel Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? and the essay collection I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction. Clarke’s stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Sewanee Review, and more. His work has appeared in the annual Best American Essays, Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South anthologies, as well as on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Clarke is the cohost of the award-winning podcast Dead Writers and the A. LeRoy Greason Professor of English and Creative Writing at Bowdoin College. He lives in Portland, Maine.