D. Wystan Owen is the author of Other People's Love Affairs: Stories (Algonquin Books), named a Best Book of 2018 by Amazon and The Washington Independent Review of Books. A 2015 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, his fiction and essays have appeared in A Public Space, The American Scholar, LitHub, and elsewhere. He is the former Deputy Editor of The Threepenny Review, and Co-Founder / Publisher of The Bare Life Review.