Steven Schwartz has received the Nelson Algren Award, the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, and two O. Henry awards. He is the author of one other novel, Therapy, and two short story collections, Lives of the Fathers and Leningrad in Winter. His fiction has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, Tikkun, Redbook, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Epoch, Missouri Review, and has been recorded for Selected Shorts and NPR. An associate professor of English at Colorado State University, he has taught at the Warren Wilson MFA program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, where he was the John Gardner Fellow in Fiction. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1993.
