Steve Almond is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football. His essays and reviews have been published in venues ranging from The New York Times Magazine to Ploughshares to Poets & Writers, and his short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Mysteries, and Best American Erotica. He teaches creative writing at the Neiman Fellowship at Harvard and Wesleyan and lives with his family in Arlington, Massachusetts.
