Christopher Castellani is the author of three previous novels (the trilogy A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love) and The Art of Perspective, a book of essays on the craft of fiction. He is the winner of a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow, and the 2022-2024 Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. His fourth novel, Leading Men, is currently being adapted into film for Fox Searchlight Pictures by Oscar-winning producer Peter Spears and director Luca Guadagino. He lives in Boston and Provincetown.