David Huddle is Professor of English at the University of Vermont and the Bread Loaf School of English. He is the author of Intimates: A Book of Stories, Summer Lake: New and Selected Poems, A David Huddle Reader, and The Story of a Million Years, a novel that was named a Distinguished Book of the Year by Esquire and a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review in 1999. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers as well as in Best American Short Stories.