A former marine, newspaper editor and orderly in a mental hospital, Tom Paine is a graduate of Princeton and the Columbia MFA program. He is the winner of an O. Henry Award, the 1998 Pushcart Prize and the Boston Review Fiction Award. His stories have been featured in the New Yorker, Playboy and Zoetrope. He has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo and the Mellon Foundation. He teaches creative writing at Middlebury College, and lives with his wife in Charlotte, Vermont.
