Tom Whalen is a novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and translator of two books by Robert Walser, Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories and Little Snow Landscape (NYRB Classics). His work has appeared in Agni, Bookforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Film Quarterly, Georgia Review, Harper's, The Literary Review, The Missouri Review, The Paris Review, as well as several anthologies including Sudden Fiction, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present and The Book of Eros.