Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His novels have been translated into Spanish, German and French. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Harper’s, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, the Mississippi Review, and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. In 2000-2001 he was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. www.tomdrury.net/